elementary / elementary/mail

Show placeholder if there are no messages in folder

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Description

## Problem

Right now there is no placeholder image or indication that a folder contains no messages:

![Screenshot from 2021-09-25 11-54-33](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/392542/134767344-2409545e-a0b3-461c-8193-9be867fbf246.png)

## Proposal

We should display some sort of placeholder, so the user does not think this is due to an error. In case we are dealing with the inbox folder it would be even nicer to show some rewarding thing which celebrates the fact that there is "nothing to do".

## Prior Art

Seen this "Yay, you're all done :partying_face:" in quite a lot of different places. Despite, I'm still a little proud of myself every time I get to see this :) Here's just one example of what GitHub does:

![Screenshot from 2021-09-25 12-01-44](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/392542/134767510-e3485d0b-65d6-4c55-ade0-154a64ad201c.png)

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