Re: [Evolution] new mail notify applet? Where?

[Iain Buchanan <iaindb netspace net au>]

On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 08:50 -0500, James Pifer wrote:
> > I know you mentioned you didn't want mail-notify already but have you
> > really looked into it?  It doesn't "check your mail" a second time
> > around (necessarily) - you can set it to look at your evolution folders
> > instead of checking for mail.  That way it lets you know when the mail
> > has arrived according to evolution, but without actually making a pop or
> > imap connection itself.
> >
> > It is available at http://www.nongnu.org/mailnotify/ for those
> > interested.

[snip]

> Can you elaborate a little bit on your setup? I'm having some trouble
> getting it to work correctly.

Firstly I have evolution 2.4.2, so I don't know if that makes a
difference to the applet.

I added a mailbox in the prefs window, using:
"mailbox type"  "Evolution"
"mailbox name"  "INBOX"
"Folder" <selected my inbox folder from the evolution-style folder list>

I also made these changes to the "Mail Summary Popup"
- Enable mail summary popup
- Automacitally close after 5s
- Only Display recent mail

looking at the mail-notification source (for gentoo) I see a patch
applied called mail-notification-2.0-evolution-2.4.diff

which looks like it changes the behaviour for evolution 2.4, so my
settings may be useless to you!

>  I have Evolution 2.2.3. I pointed mail-
> notification to my mail file
> at /home/username/.evolution/mail/local/Inbox

Interesting.  what mailbox type did you select?

> What am I missing? Obviously this is better for a mail-notification
> mailing list, but if anyone has input I'd appreciate it.

its a hassle to subscribe to every mailing list when you have minor
issues - this list is good enough for me :)

HTH,
-- 
Iain