[Users] Webmail support in Claws Mail

[Christian Hesse]

alb348 at gmail.com on Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:10:15 +0100:
> Hi
> 
> could Claws Mail access webmail accounts *as webmail*?
> What I mean is that, in addition to using the POP3/IMAP protocols to 
> retrieve and manage your mail locally, you would also have 'links', 
> within Claws Mail, to those webmail accounts (possibly, with 
> notifications for new mail); by clicking on those links, the relevant 
> webmail account would open *as webmail* (HTML and all), without the user 
> having to enter username and password (which were previously provided 
> and have been stored). This could be accomplished either via HTML 
> support provided by Claws Mail, or by opening the webmail account via an 
> external browser (feeding the username and the password to the browser, 
> so that the webmail account opens right away, without asking anything).
> This solution (already implemented in Thuderbird's Webmail add-on) is 
> very useful if you have many accounts, and saves a lot of time. 
> Thunderbird's implementation works great.
> I am proposing this as a new feature in Claws Mail.

Does this bring any benefits?
I do not think it make any sense to read *mails* in a browser instead of a
*mail* client.

(I do have a lot of account and CM handles them perfectly without the help of
a web browser.)
-- 
Best regards,
Chris
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