Provide IMAP (or POP) access to the DW Inbox.

[erik]

Title:
Provide IMAP (or POP) access to the DW Inbox.

Area:
DW Inbox

Summary:
I find the DW inbox cumbersome to use when it gets overfull. I'd much rather manage it like any other mailbox, in a mail application.

Description:
I've never liked the message feature of LJ/DW. I've always felt it was a weak email function bolted onto the featureset as an afterthought, serving a function that would be better served by actual email.

With that in mind I think it would be nice to be able to manage it like email, in a real email application. To do that, I'd need IMAP (or at least POP) access to my DW message inbox. This would allow me to filter out the messages I don't need to see (such as crossposting success notifications, which I cannot elect to not receive, or messages I have to get in my DW inbox in order to be allowed to get them emailed, such as comment notifications)

Poll #7884 Provide IMAP (or POP) access to the DW Inbox.

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 63

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Should be implemented as-is.
11 (17.5%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
2 (3.2%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
24 (38.1%)

(I have no opinion)
26 (41.3%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)

Comments

[green_knight]

I haven't voted yet - my first impulse was 'oh, yes, PLEASE' because there are 1500 things in my inbox and most of them are notifications and I've completely lost track of them' but I will vote 'with changes' and add my voice to those who want to see the system revamped to make comment management easier.

Because of the now 1300 things (I deleted circle changes wholesale) it now says all (1385) Messages (10) Entries and comments (548). What I really want to filter out and delete wholesale are the crosspost successful/not successful messages, but I can't select them.

So better choices which messages we receive (email only, inbox only e-mail and inbox) and better inbox management tools, please.

[denise]

There are already bugs for all of those. (The problem is that the notification system is very, very complex, and requires someone with a lot of experience to make changes in it.)