Triggering POP3 check & Label improvements

[kamilion]

I would like to propose the development of the following features:

Triggering of the POP3 check while checking account
Checking additional Labels for unread messages

Use case:

Short:
I've been using GMail for many years now and have setup filters to keep unimportant messages from appearing in my inboxes.

Currently, Spiffy doesn't seem to notify me when a label gets a new message that skips the inbox but is still marked unread.

Long:
I have GMail setup to check my work POP3 account, and deliver the messages to a label named "! Work". Other messages skip the inbox and end up in Labels such as "! Family" or "! Important".

My current configuration for Spiffy is using multiple 'accounts' with the same username/password set, with the additional accounts set for "Check this GMail Label instead of Inbox".

I propose expanding this feature to a list of Labels ("Inbox" acts as a hidden label, and cannot be removed.) so I could use a single account, with the list set to "Inbox, ! Work, ! Family, ! Important".

It would also be quite nice if Spiffy could trigger the POP3 check itself, a short while before checking for new messages. (Occasionally it takes GMail a few minutes to process and sort incoming POP3 messages.)

Thank you very much for all the time and effort you've spent to make Spiffy the best tray-notifier I've found for the various incarnations of windows!

I made the decision to download it based on the fact that it's the only windows-based GPL licensed notifier I could find, and I'm very picky about being able to improve the software I use. Where is the GIT or SVN source repository? I haven't found any links to it.

I'm perfectly happy to add these features myself and pass the changes back up the chain to you, as I'm a NASA System Administrator, and quite familiar with the opensource development process as well as C#.

If you do not have a source repository, where can I send a snail mail for a physical copy of the source as required by the GPL? I'm willing to send on the cost of the return media.

[Kevin]

Dec 29, 2009 5:40:29 GMT 1 kamilion said:

Checking additional Labels for unread messages

Use case:

Short:
I've been using GMail for many years now and have setup filters to keep unimportant messages from appearing in my inboxes.

Currently, Spiffy doesn't seem to notify me when a label gets a new message that skips the inbox but is still marked unread.

Long:
I have GMail setup to check my work POP3 account, and deliver the messages to a label named "! Work". Other messages skip the inbox and end up in Labels such as "! Family" or "! Important".

I think this is a bug, it should notify you. I always tested with the 'Spam' folder, maybe because you have spaces in the Label name things go wrong. I'll check that out. Tested, seems to work fine with a Label named "! test".
I might expand the Label options some time (thanks for the suggestions) but this should do the job for now.

Dec 29, 2009 5:40:29 GMT 1 kamilion said:

It would also be quite nice if Spiffy could trigger the POP3 check itself, a short while before checking for new messages. (Occasionally it takes GMail a few minutes to process and sort incoming POP3 messages.)

This is not possible sorry. Spiffy only uses atom feeds to check for unread mail and cannot initiate pop checking. We depend on Google with that.

Dec 29, 2009 5:40:29 GMT 1 kamilion said:

Thank you very much for all the time and effort you've spent to make Spiffy the best tray-notifier I've found for the various incarnations of windows!

Great you like Spiffy, I wrote it because I couldnt find a decent tray notifier with multiple accounts

Dec 29, 2009 5:40:29 GMT 1 kamilion said:

I made the decision to download it based on the fact that it's the only windows-based GPL licensed notifier I could find, and I'm very picky about being able to improve the software I use. Where is the GIT or SVN source repository? I haven't found any links to it.

I'm perfectly happy to add these features myself and pass the changes back up the chain to you, as I'm a NASA System Administrator, and quite familiar with the opensource development process as well as C#.

If you do not have a source repository, where can I send a snail mail for a physical copy of the source as required by the GPL? I'm willing to send on the cost of the return media.

Spiffy is not GPL anymore, I changed it to just "Freeware" a while ago. I'm not planning on releasing the source either.

[kamilion]

Dec 29, 2009 21:29:20 GMT 1 Kevin said:

Spiffy is not GPL anymore, I changed it to just "Freeware" a while ago. I'm not planning on releasing the source either.

Er, that's sort of against the license then, I downloaded it from filestube marked as GPL -- If you've relicensed it since then, that's fine, but GPL is GPL, there's a reason they call it a viral license. You are required to redistribute the source of the last GPL'd binary release, according to the terms of the license. But hey, I don't really care either way, you were apparently unaware of the terms of the license, I'm not gonna be the bad guy and push it -- but I did look through the forum just now and found the other topic requesting the source, and that was back in november, and most of the releases happened after that.

The GPL in spirit exists to protect your right to choose how your work is distributed. It would be against that spirit to use it against the code's own author, in my opinion.

Ah, well, I was stoked about being able to pack it in with some PE.NET bootcd projects I had in progress, but I guess I'll pull it out now, since I can't legally redistribute it.

I'll still use it for now on my own personal system, but I guess I'll have to write my own. Thanks for the C#2 Atom snippit.

I was more interested in your UI shell anyway. System Tray applets are a pain to template. Was hoping to save some time, I hate reimplimenting a wheel. And it's sort of fun learning and teaching at the same time by working with other's code and getting your fixes and improvements pushed back up to the mainline.

[Kevin]

I was unaware of all the details of GPL back then and didn't choose the right license when I released Spiffy... Changed it back to 'Freeware' because of the same question (source req.)
I don't want to release the source, but you can redistribute the .exe if you want... You can read this in the About window

If filestube does not update their site thats not my problem, I didn't ask them to put my software there It's listed as Freeware everywhere (Snapfiles, Cnet, Majorgeeks etc)