From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050416 Fedora/1.0.3-2 Firefox/1.0.3 Description of problem: mail-notify plugin is not being built in the current devel build. This appears to be intentional 'for now': * Thu Mar 17 2005 David Malcolm <dmalcolm redhat com> - 2.2.1-1 - The new-mail-notify plugin will not be built for now since the upstream configure test now checks for dbus-glib-1 version <= 0.23.4 (to minimise problems caused by the API change) With the mail notification applet being removed from gnome, this leaves users without any form of mail notification. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Install Evolution Additional info:
However, this should be simple to fix; I intend to do this for FC4 final. Thanks for the reminder.
The fix made it into this morning's Rawhide - please test! Thanks
Dave, The plugin seems to be doing it's job, however that job is different to what I expected. It only seems to send a DBUS message saying there is new mail. Unless there is somthing (i.e. an applet) listening, nothing happens. It might be worth thinging about putting in em-panel-applet: http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/evolution-hackers/2005-April/005369.html http://www.gnome.org/~gicmo/random/em-panel-applet-0.2.tar.gz I compiled this (needed to change DBUS_INTERFACE_FREEDESKTOP_ORG_LOCAL to DBUS_INTERFACE_LOCAL) and it proudced a nice little applet for me which notified me of new mail. However, it segfaulted shortly after I read my mail. I'm not sure if you want it in there, or what priority it would be (or if you have better things to do), but I can take a look at the segfault in the next day or two and try to come up with a fix.
Phil: thanks for looking into this; please can you file adding the applet as a separate bug? Thanks. FC4 is deeply frozen feature-wise right now, so I think your best bet is to package it up for Fedora Extras (which would be awesome) Note that the DBus API changed at version 0.31; you'll need to ensure that the applet is using the new API (I patched Evolution to allow this, but a mismatch between DBus APIs could well be causing the segfault you saw: you may need to patch the applet correspondingly)