Bug 60264

Summary:	New mail popup should show sender and subject
Product:	[Applications] kmail2	Reporter:	M <muellerj>
Component:	general	Assignee:	kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	annma, bad_bob_kde, bjoern, caleb, dousek.petr, j.cook, jpalecek, montel, MurzNN, olekgutjwr
Priority:	NOR	Keywords:	junior-jobs
Version:	1.99.0
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	openSUSE
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:	4.11
Sentry Crash Report:

Description M 2003-06-23 10:39:24 UTC

Version:           1.5.2 (using KDE KDE 3.1.2)
Installed from:    SuSE RPMs
OS:          Linux

The new mail popup currently shows something like "There is some new mail". It should rather show the sender and the subject: "New mail by myfriend@home: Lets go fishing". This would be very helpful to decide to read the email now or later, and could save some klicks and desktop switchings, IMO.
If there are several new mails it could show "There is several new mails" and *possibly* show sender/subject of the last one.

Also see: Bug 57908 (wish).

Comment 1 kde 2004-04-26 16:34:37 UTC

Perhaps even providing a link to click to send you to the most recent mail. I belive this is possible with KNotify or even directly with KPassivePopup, but i am not sure how to implement it.

Comment 2 Carsten Burghardt 2004-05-13 11:14:08 UTC

*** Bug 81464 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3 JP 2004-09-28 17:28:12 UTC

very interresting feature !!
The possibility to view subject and sender will be awesome :)

Comment 4 Jaakko Holster 2005-04-06 14:11:20 UTC

A vote for this feature from me. Showing sender and/or subject in the popup is not necessary since the idea of passive popup is to be just a *notification*, not a mail reader itself. However, popup with clickable link focusing kmail and opening the folder where new mail is located would be really neat feature.

Comment 5 Olivier Magere 2005-06-12 10:09:03 UTC

I agree this would be good (albeit not very original). You have my vote.

Comment 6 Bob 2009-08-22 22:54:22 UTC

*** Bug 179521 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7 Björn Ruberg 2009-12-18 17:57:27 UTC

Sounds like a great junior job.

Comment 8 Björn Ruberg 2009-12-21 22:35:23 UTC

*** Bug 113871 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 9 Murz 2010-06-03 09:49:50 UTC

We can use plasmoid widgets that shows new mail, for example, this:
http://kde-look.org/content/show.php/KMail+Plasmoid+%28MockUp%29?content=114794
or this: http://vizzzion.org/?blogentry=908
But none of they are in active development :(

Comment 10 Olek Gut 2011-11-23 01:44:23 UTC

This feature request is still valid for KMail 2

Comment 11 Petr Dousek 2013-03-13 20:34:42 UTC

I'll try to work on this.