Sorry, I meant to say "Incorporating this feature into Empathy" as opposed to "Evolution" in the comment above.
Google Talk does indeed have a documented extension to the XMPP protocol, which allows clients to "subscribe" to push notifications for new emails. The fact that these notifications are "pushed" relieves the client of the need to poll the server on a set interval and makes them (theoretically) almost instant. Support for this feature is surely worth considering, even if it is only Google Talk that currently offers it. It would be particularly useful for the many people who choose not to use Evolution to read their mail but still require notifications. The feature is documented at: http://code.google.com/apis/talk/jep_extensions/gmail.html -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/332355 Title: Empathy doesn't alert to new email messages -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
