Add a way for email applications to register themselves to mailnag

[Julien Olivier]

I think the perfect solution to avoid having to configure email accounts both in mailnag and in the email client could be to add a way for email applications to "register" themselves to mailnag.

For example, mailnag would start with no configuration. Then, when evolution or thunderbird is launched, it would find the running mailnag and send it information about the user accounts so that mailnag automatically adds them automatically. Of course, this would need to add an extension in evolution or thunderbird to do the client part. It could even send information about how to open a new email and how to reply to it.

[Patrick Ulbrich (pulb)]

Nice idea, but I guess its easier for users to enter their accounts twice instead of messing around with plugin installations :-)

[Julien Olivier (julo)]

That's true, except that it is not too unrealistic to imagine that, if successfull, those extensions could come bundled into the email clients packages in distributions such as ubuntu or fedora.

[Patrick Ulbrich (pulb)]

I just noticed that popper (the mail notifier mailnag forked from) has an import button which enables you to import accounts (e.g. evolution) from gnome keyring. The code is available in mailnag too, just not yet exposed in the configuration gui.

[Julien Olivier (julo)]

That would already be a step in the right direction, but I'm convinced that we really need a solution that works automatically. But maybe the import function could detect automatically the presence of evolution or thunderbird...

[Patrick Ulbrich (pulb)]

The import function imports all keyring keys starting with "pop://" or "smtp://". This includes evolution accounts, not sure about thunderbird though.