Bug#245142: gnome-applets: Mailcheck is unable to work with preauth'd or tunnel'd IMAP

[Wesley W. Terpstra]

On Sun, Nov 28, 2004 at 02:35:47PM +0100, Marc Dequ=E8nes wrote:
> "Wesley W. Terpstra" <terpstra@debian.org> writes:
> > I have prepared a patch which adds support to mailcheck for using an
> > arbitrary command to be used in establishing a connection. This allow=
s
> > for running POP and IMAP over ssh.
> >
> > Please forward it upstream.
>=20
> I'm really sorry, i missed this patch.
> When i took over this package, your bugreport was flooded by a so great
> amount of bugs.
> Because many things have changed this patch cannot be applied anymore,
> could you fix it to apply on 2.8 version in unstable please ? (so that
> it can be added in Sarge release).

I personally am using offlineimap now and don't use this patch.
Also, this is from upstream:

------- Additional Comments From davyd@madeley.id.au  2004-10-26 09:15 --=
-----
After an extensive discussion, mailcheck has been deprecated for GNOME 2.=
10,
ideally to be replaced by an evolution based mail notification system tha=
t
integrates tightly with the desktop. People who don't use Evolution will
probably want to look at the highly superior mailnotify.

mailcheck support will continue for GNOME 2.8. If people should have any
concerns regarding this decision they should contact me privately.

People who are using mailcheck will receive an informational dialog when =
they
run GNOME 2.10 informing them that mailcheck has been deprecated (as well=
 as
removing it from their configuration). [1] This dialog will eventually li=
nk to
migration help.

[1] http://davyd.ucc.asn.au/images/no-more-applets-in-gconf.png

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Wesley W. Terpstra