Doesn't open the corresponding email-account

[Alex Solanos]

Hello and thanks for this useful application!

I have configured 3 e-mail accounts in Unity email, let's say A, B and C.

'A' was the first to configure after I installed the program, B and C followed.

Let's say I have an e-mail sent on B account, I will get notified for this, I will click on the unity icon in my launcher, firefox will come up and will log me in my A account.
To put it in other words, no matter where I have email, my default (1st set) account will be opened instead.

Also, it doesn't open any account (does no action at all) if I click an email from the list provided at the message icon on the top right (http://i.imgur.com/yGOcd.png)

Thanks again!

[Dmitry Shachnev (mitya57)]

The main reason for not doing this was the goal to keep Unity Mail as lightweight and simple as possible (it's just a notifier, not a mail client!). For example, implementing this would require entering (in your case) 12 different URLs (3 accounts × [Home, Inbox, Compose, Sent URLs]).

The other reason is that an user (in the current implementation) knows which URL/program will be opened and is used to such behaviour, so opening different URLs depending on a case will be a kind of confusing thing.

What I can surely do is an ability to set different inbox URLs via a configuration file and open that URL when clicking on mails in the messaging menu (they will be opened only if such an URL is provided!). I will implement this after I finish some more important tasks :)

[Dmitry Shachnev (mitya57)]

Fixed in bzr.
Now you can specify URLs/commands to open via the configuration file.

1. Open the configuration file (~/.config/unity-mail.conf)
2. If [URLs] section doesn't exist, by appending "[URLs]" to that file
3. Under that section, enter URLs as "Inbox[e-mail] = URL" lines
    - e-mail should be in either "username@imap_server" or "username@imap_server_without_imap_prefix" format
    - URL should be in either a simple "protocol://address" format, or in "Exec:command" format to execute a command (i.e. to open a messaging client or a different web browser)
4. Now clicking on a messaging menu item would open the corresponding URL/command. This won't work for Unity Launcher item for reasons described above.

The fix will make its way to Unity Mail 0.12 release.

[Dmitry Shachnev (mitya57)]

* add it by appending "[URLs]" to that file

[Dmitry Shachnev (mitya57)]

Uploaded the new version to Precise & Oneiric.