Greetings everyone :]
After a long period of laziness, Intrepid problems on my laptop (wireless + kernel-panic #314961 and blank CD/DVD problem #321174), I finally resurface and of course not without a souvernir to you.
With many tasks at hand to handle, you are preoccupied most of the time, chances are important email goes unnoticed. Pidgin’s new email notification is puny and has no tray icon support (what a let down). cGmail doesn’t support normal free Yahoo! and WLM/Hotmail. You started your quest searching for a decent mail notification: kbiff, gbiff, mail-notification, etc. You settled for Mail-notification for it caught your eyes with the lean interface and gnome integration. After the installation from the repo, what a nightmare you got after an easy process of adding accounts. You started swearing mentally. Yahoo and WLM don’t work out of the box unless installing extra debs (fetchyahoo and getlive). Worst still, the deb itself is not up-to-date and even the latest deb doesn’t work!!! You googled and started swearing verbally now. SSL support is greyed out due to licensing issue. You could be like, “**** this sh!t already!”. Don’t worry, I was in the same situation as you. I am ended up building the package from scratch with ssl enabled and writing a guide on how to install and use Mail-Notification with Ubuntu.
== 1 ==
Download my deb with SSL enabled [*** here ***]. And if you need evolution integration then this deb as well [mn_evolution].
== 2 ==
Install neccessary debs for Yahoo!, WLM as well as OpenSSL
% sudo apt-get install fetchyahoo getlive openssl
== 3 ==
* Download the modified script for [GetLive here]. Credit goes here https://bugs.launchpad.net/mail-notification/+bug/297774
* Presuming you saved the file in your home document, we need to move/symlink it to /usr/bin and make it executable
% sudo mv ~/GetLive /usr/bin/GetLive % sudo chmod +x /usr/bin/GetLive
== 4 ==
Launch it, Menu – Internet – Mail Notification
Configure the accounts, this is per usersetting.
== 5 == (Optional)
* Automatic start mail-notification when session start, System – Preference – Session
* Always display icon, open “gconf-editor” -> /apps/mail-notification/always-display-icon
* Give yourself a pat on your shoulder.
Cheers :]
PS: if you want to build them manually next time, I just found a blog (http://glyphobet.net/blog/essay/286) which provided a script to do it. Though, you should revise the script before run it because removing “–disable-ssl” is in for 4.x while “ssl=no” is for version >= 5.4 from debian/rules.
Your deb links are broken
It works for me. The mediafire links all work perfectly.
Anyway, I uploaded them here as well. And these packages are for intrepid by the way.
http://idyllictux.izfree.com/Deb/mail-notification_5.4.dfsg.1-1build1.0.idyllic.0_i386.deb
http://idyllictux.izfree.com/Deb/mail-notification-evolution_5.4.dfsg.1-1build1.0.idyllic.0_i386.deb
I have a the 64bit version of ubuntu what do i do? thanks!
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I am not too sure about 64bit. I guess you have to build from source. Instruction can be seen here ‘ http://glyphobet.net/blog/essay/286 ‘ , also in that script change “–disable-ssl” to “ssl=no” to build the package. Other package for mailnotification to work with yahoo and msn you can see with my step 2-5. Though I am unaware of the status of those packages (fixed or not in Jaunty). I hope it works out for you.
Thank you, I did try that but it doesn’t work on ubuntu 9.10
What do you mean by it doesn’t work? Any error spit out? Maybe, you can try ’ssl=yes’. Now then I realize the typo.
You also can try this suggestion.
http://cristianubuntu.blogspot.com/2009/02/mail-notification-
with-ssl-support.html
I am rushing for my class now. But I will get back to you later if I find anything.
Thank you!
It works great with my Ubuntu 9.10.
One small issue was that I had to install from the terminal by
sudo dpkg -i mail-notification_5.4.dfsg.1-1build1_~idyllic~_i386.deb
Other than that, it works great!
You have saved my many sleepless night.
Hello,
I am disappointed. I did all of that and I still have the fetchyahoo error grrrr
-my yahoo has the new interface version enabled
-I checked both, the ubuntu 9.10 package from synaptic and also dowloaded mail notification .deb from here
-gmail works ok but my two yahoo accounts get the error
-I installed the fechyahoo version and openssl too
I run ubuntu 9.10 32 bits
Please any clue about what could be?
Thanks in advance, guys
Thanks for the deb’s. Worked like they should in ubuntu 9.10 32 bit.
Do you know what the license issue is about?