[Bug 206274] New: Add system tray notification option to kmail for sending mail

[Fred Wells]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=206274

           Summary: Add system tray notification option to kmail for
                    sending mail
           Product: kmail
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Fedora RPMs
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: wishlist
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
        AssignedTo: kdepim-bugs at kde.org
        ReportedBy: fred_wells at charter.net


Version:            (using KDE 4.3.0)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Fedora RPMs

This has been a longstanding issue for me, going back to KDE3.  I don't really
recall the disposition of the KDE3 feature request I had opened on this.  I
think it fell stale for years and I finally closed it for lack of developer
interest.  Thus, I'm reviving it here for KDE4.

Anyway, the problem remains that kmail provides no progress/status indicator
when sending mail from an external application (e.g. digiKam).  Users have
absolutely no clue as to the delivery status of the mail without taking the
unnecessarily time consuming steps of opening kmail and checking
outgoing/sent-mail folders.  This is particularly problematic for failed
deliveries.   While it is possible to add a filter to play a sound upon sent
mail success, this is hardly intuitive and still gives no visual indication.

Therefore, I recommend taking advantage of KDE4's new System Tray Notifications
and Jobs component as a Notification "option" for kmail.  In this way, when
configured, mail sent either from within kmail or externally (from digikam, for
example) can provide the user with a useful progress/status indicator.  Perhaps
it could/should be handled in a similar manner as file transfers are to/from
konqueror.

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