[CentOS] Mail notification in panel/system tray on CentOS 6

[Toralf Lund]

On 29/01/13 16:22, Toralf Lund wrote:
> On 28/01/13 14:18, SilverTip257 wrote:
>> On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 2:48 AM, Toralf Lund<toralf.lund at pgs.com>   wrote:
>>
>>> On 27/01/13 07:13, SilverTip257 wrote:
>>>> On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 10:10 AM, Giles Coochey<giles at coochey.net>
>>>    wrote:
>>>>> On 25/01/2013 15:00, Toralf Lund wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Does anyone know of a way to add a "new mail" notification icon to the
>>>>>> panel/system tray under CentOS 6?
>>>>>> On CentOS 5, I used the "mail-notification" software package provided
> [ ... ]
>>> You might consider having your MUA do the notifying rather than having an
>>> applet go check your inbox for you.
>>> I'm mostly using thunderbird for e-mail, and it actually also supports
>>> notification via pop-ups. But:
>>>
>>>    1. I think it's nice to be able to close the application completely
>>>       when not working on e-mail.
>>>
>> I hear you! ;)
>>
>>
>>>    2. "Global" popups are generally annoying/too obtrusive. A small icon
>>>       that changes state is much better.
>>>
>> Understandable.
>>
>> http://www.nongnu.org/mailnotify/
>> I'm guessing this is what you've used in the past.
> Actually, what I used on CentOS 5 was the below mentioned software.
Which is really the same as the one referenced above, I now notice ;-)

I've now managed to build my own rpm for this, by combining the last 
source code release from the above, the spec file from the EPEL 5 source 
rpm, a bit of trial, and let's not forget, a fair amount of error, too. 
I'll try to attach the spec file...

- Toralf




> Before that, i.e. on EL 4, I believe something else was included in the
> main distro, but I don't remember what.
>
>> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/acls/name/mail-notification
>> Even though the package is listed it appears nobody has packaged it in EPEL
>> (for example).
>> http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/i386/repoview/letter_m.group.html
> Well, it is actually included in EPEL 5, but not 6.
>
>> Not as simple, but you might consider building it on your system.
> I tried both binary and source rpms from EPEL5, but it didn't work too
> well. Actually, the problem wasn't mail-notification itself, but rather
> eel2, which it requires. This used to be part of the main distribution,
> but isn't any more. Binaries from past versions have dependencies that
> are hard to resolve, and an attempt to rebuild from source rpm failed
> with the below error messages. Maybe I can find away around this, but I
> don't have time to try right now...
>
> test-eel-image-table.c: In function 'image_table_child_pressed_callback':
> test-eel-image-table.c:126: error: 'G_GNUC_FUNCTION' undeclared (first
> use in this function)
> test-eel-image-table.c:126: error: (Each undeclared identifier is
> reported only once
> test-eel-image-table.c:126: error: for each function it appears in.)
> test-eel-image-table.c: In function 'image_table_child_released_callback':
> test-eel-image-table.c:141: error: 'G_GNUC_FUNCTION' undeclared (first
> use in this function)
> test-eel-image-table.c: In function 'image_table_child_clicked_callback':
> test-eel-image-table.c:156: error: 'G_GNUC_FUNCTION' undeclared (first
> use in this function)
> test-eel-image-table.c: In function 'foo_timeout':
> test-eel-image-table.c:167: error: 'G_GNUC_FUNCTION' undeclared (first
> use in this function)
> test-eel-image-table.c: In function 'image_table_size_allocate':
> test-eel-image-table.c:195: error: 'G_GNUC_FUNCTION' undeclared (first
> use in this function)
>
> - Toralf
>
>
>>> - Toralf
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>> It isn't so common to receive email locally anymore, most people are
>>> using
>>>>> remote mail servers.
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>
>>>>> Giles Coochey, CCNA, CCNAS
>>>>> NetSecSpec Ltd
>>>>> +44 (0) 7983 877438
>>>>> http://www.coochey.net
>>>>> http://www.netsecspec.co.uk
>>>>> giles at coochey.net
>>>>>
>>>>>
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