GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 446484
I can't turn off new mail notification
Last modified: 2008-04-15 19:16:05 UTC
Please describe the problem: edit->preferences->mail preferences setting Mail Notification Do Not notify me when new mail arrives doesn't work. When mail arrives and isn't handled by one of my filters (which move it to other folders), thereby ending up in the default Inbox, I get a notification popup. If the filters move all the new mail out of Inbox, I get no popup. For what it's worth, I'm not running Mail Notification as part of my default sessions. Steps to reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Does this happen every time? Other information: I'm running on a garnome-svn, i686 box (actually two of them with the same behavior).
This problem seemed to have disappeared for some time. However, today I upgraded to evolution 2.11.6 and it's back.
I think the "Mail Notification" options in the Preferences window refer to a completely different mail notification system than the "Mail Notification" plugin. Obviously that's a problem, but a different problem than what you've stated. In GConf we have "/apps/evolution/mail/notify" for the "Mail Notification" preferences, and "/apps/evolution/mail/notification" for the "Mail Notification" plugin. The settings should probably be merged, or the old system killed off. CC'ing Srini, since he probably already has a plan for this.
I think this should be a rework to remove the mail notification from the core code and move it to mail-notification and add everything part of the new plugin configuration. That makes it perfect also cleans the preferences window very well. I dont think I have effort to do it. I would welcome a patch and Im free to help, if one takes up.
More feedback from a Fedora user: Using evolution-2.11.92-3.fc8, everything else current with development as of 9/14/2007 evolution always displays the new mail notification in the notification area even if the preferences are set to not alert me when new mail arrives. Given the volume of mail we receive this means a notification is popping up every minute or two. Not only that, but the notification icon is set to blink, this is unnecessary and I believe is inconsistent with the HIG, no other status icons blink. The total effect is very distracting. (http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=291221)
Bumping version to a stable release.
This should be obsolete in 2.22.x, see bug #492702. Can you check this with the latest stable version to be sure it's working as expected please? Thanks in advance. (Just a note, options for mail notification are now in Edit->Plugins->Configuration tab)
I've tried turning mail notification on and off. Things seem to work correctly. Note that there are 2 mail notification plugins. Close this one. David
Just to be more clear about my last comment. I'm running garnome's svn trunk--as such, GNOME 2.22.1 was installed in a completely clean tree. There are plugins in /opt/garnome-2.22.1/lib/evolution/2.22/plugins, and in particular, I see: ls -l /opt/gnome/lib/evolution/2.22/plugins/*mail-notification*.eplug -rw-r--r-- 1 ronis ronis 904 2008-04-11 00:37 /opt/gnome/lib/evolution/2.22/plugins/org-gnome-mail-notification.eplug -rw-r--r-- 1 ronis ronis 789 2008-04-11 18:43 /opt/gnome/lib/evolution/2.22/plugins/org-jylefort-mail-notification.eplug and related .so and .la files.
I've tracked down where the 2nd mail-notification program is coming from (it's in geektoys/mail-notification. Let's close this one.
I agree, just making "NotABug", I think it's more appropriate, because we didn't do any change in the code to fix this :)