what are the "Online accounts" used for under System Settings?

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Published on 2012-06-02T02:05:27Z Indexed on 2012/06/02 10:50 UTC
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I previously never bothered with it. but I just did a fresh install of 12.04 and figured "hey maybe i'll put in my google account and see what happens" I logged in with google and everyting like mal/calendar/contacts/chat is set to "on"...

I figured it might automatically set up my gmail for various applications like empathy and thunderbird.. but I opened them up and found nothing...

What exactly is the purpose of adding your account to "online accounts"? where is it used?

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