Re: [Evolution] new mail notification not working?

[Eamonn Hamilton <EAMONN HAMILTON saic com>]

Hmmn, don't have that option.

All I have is an option to set the period for mail checking.

All my other filters work, however, on mail receipt.


On Tue, 2003-03-04 at 15:37, Brendan Murphy wrote:
> Eamonn,
>
> Make sure that you have the box 'Apply filters to new messages in INBOX
> on this server' selected under Tools -> Settings -> (Select Account) ->
> Edit -> Receiving Options
>
> I couldn't get my new mail notification to work until setting this
> regardless of whether or not I had filters set.  It seems that the new
> mail notification sound is itself a 'default' filter ... that obviously
> won't get played unless this box is selected.
>
> Hope this solves your problem-
>
> B
>
> On Tue, 2003-03-04 at 08:26, Eamonn Hamilton wrote:
> > Hi Darren.
> >
> > Yep, I've looked through the history and still nothing. The setting of
> > an action on a filter to beep DOES work, so evo can definitely talk to
> > the esound setup, but not as new mail notification.
> >
> > I did have an IMAP account setup ( in addition to the local delivery
> > account ), but I've removed that and I still get nothing for new mail
> > notification, while setting a sound on the filters does work.
> >
> > So, in the meantime I've got a filter at the top of my list checking for
> > the existence of the To header, and dropping through to the rest of
> > them. Not ideal, but it works ( for most mail, anyway ).
> >
> > The next step, I guess, is to get a version of evolution compiled with
> > some form of debugging in place to allow the tracing of filter actions
> > as they are executed. Or something. :)
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Eamonn
> >
> >
> > On Tue, 2003-03-04 at 14:35, D. D. Brierton wrote: 
> > > On Tue, 2003-03-04 at 10:44, Eamonn Hamilton wrote:
> > >
> > > > I'm trying to get evolution 1.2.2 ( debian/unstable ) to beep at me when
> > > > I receive a mail.
> > > > Unfortunately, despite everything I select, it remains mute. Esound is
> > > > installed and working, and the mixer levels work fine for everything
> > > > else. I've tried both the beep and a wav file.
> > >
> > > Well I can't get it to work either. I posted this bug report here:
> > > http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=32198
> > >
> > > Why don't you read hrough it and see if anything there helps. The bug
> > > has been closed by Fejj because he claims that he can't reproduce it and
> > > there "can't possibly be anything wrong with the code", however, nothing
> > > I do has managed to get this feature working and know that others have
> > > problems with it too.
> > >
> > > Best, Darren
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Eamonn Hamilton

Senior Systems Engineer
SAIC