GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 648471
[mail-notification] Notification pop-up doesn't let me delete mail or mark as read
Last modified: 2017-01-19 12:44:03 UTC
For a while I used Jean-Yves Lefort's mail-notification tool in conjunction with Evolution. It pops up notification for each message and gives you the option right there and then to either delete the message or mark it as read. Having updated to a new version of Evolution and found that this plugin is now horridly broken, I am surprised to find how much I *miss* that functionality. A *lot* of my incoming mail can either be deleted or marked as read immediately, without ever visiting it in Evolution itself. I've lost control of my mailbox now that I have lost this facility (and I suspect other circumstances have helped with that too, but the notification thing is a significant contributor). It would be really good to fix the built-in notification so that we can delete messages and mark them as read from the notification pop-up. And also to *open* them; either in a separate viewer window or preferably in an existing shell just be 'navigating' to the message in question. (Fixing the JY-L mail-notification stuff would be a viable answer too, I suppose, but that is long-unmaintained and fairly broken by design as I understand it)
duplicate of bug 464400 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=464400#c3 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=464400#c12
It's related, but not really a duplicate. Besides, that bug is already closed. In Fedora 15 the notification contains the information in that bug, when it's for a single message (and with IMAP IDLE working correctly on the Inbox, I'd expect *most* notifications to happen as soon as a single message arrives). The notification pops up with a confusing 'Default' button which doesn't seem to do much. *This* bug/RFE is for the fact that it would be much more useful if it gave us buttons with options like 'Mark as read' 'Delete', 'Open message'.
*** Bug 127516 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Thanks for a bug report. I'm WontFix-ing this. I receive multiple mails at once often, which results in "you have 10 new messages", but more importantly, the notification is not a mail browser, thus I'd not do it. (In reply to David Woodhouse from comment #0) > (Fixing the JY-L mail-notification stuff would be a viable answer too, I > suppose, but that is long-unmaintained and fairly broken by design as I > understand it) The current Fedora mail-notification package has some fixes, but note that they disable the evolution part by default, thus you should compile it yourself and enable the evolution build manually. More can be seen here: http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/rpms/mail-notification.git/tree/