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bug #18718: mail-notification doesn't work with system mailbox /var/mail/<user> or /var/spool/mail/<user>

Submitted by:  Johannes Zellner <joze>
Submitted on:  Sun 07 Jan 2007 05:09:42 PM UTC  
 
Severity: 4 - ImportantStatus: Not a Bug
Privacy: PublicAssigned to: None
Originator Name: Open/Closed: Closed

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Tue 09 Jan 2007 08:54:57 AM UTC, comment #7:

I'm not making it configurable because autodetection works well; the X-Mozilla-Status header is extremely rare outside of Mozilla mailboxes (I've grepped thousands of sample mails and I found no such header).

Jean-Yves Lefort <jylefort>
Project Administrator
Mon 08 Jan 2007 08:55:15 PM UTC, comment #6:

Indeed, removing the mailbox from mail-notification and setting it again helped. Thanks! Anyway -- I think this should be configurable.

Johannes Zellner <joze>
Mon 08 Jan 2007 02:16:29 PM UTC, comment #5:

Another possibility is that the mailbox contained a X-Mozilla-Status header at some point in the past, and that the removal of the message containing the header was not detected. Try restarting MN?

Jean-Yves Lefort <jylefort>
Project Administrator
Mon 08 Jan 2007 01:58:14 PM UTC, comment #4:

wow, you're pretty fast with closing a bug report!

But:

1. My mailbox contains NO X-Mozilla-whatever headers.
2. Even if it would: it shouln't be necessary to edit the mailbox to make it recognized by mail-notification!

I still consider this beeing a bug. Here's the output of "grep -i mozilla /var/mail/joze" gives:

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20061017 Epiphany/2.16 Firefox/1.5.0.7

so apparently I GOT mail from Mozilla mailers but I didn't use Mozilla myself to read mail.

Johannes Zellner <joze>
Mon 08 Jan 2007 11:31:11 AM UTC, comment #3:

It thinks it is a Mozilla mailbox because the first message contains a X-Mozilla-Status header. That normally only happens for mailboxes managed by a Mozilla mailer. Edit the file and remove that header.

Jean-Yves Lefort <jylefort>
Project Administrator
Mon 08 Jan 2007 10:26:17 AM UTC, comment #2:

No, the mailbox is the system mailbox which is written by some local MTA (exim4 in this case). I didn't tell mail-notification anything about "Mozilla", mail-notification chose "Mozilla" itself. So maybe the question is how to add /var/mail/joze to mail-notification w/o mail-notification thinking it's a Mozilla mailbox.

Johannes Zellner <joze>
Mon 08 Jan 2007 12:55:46 AM UTC, comment #1:

Is that mailbox really a Mozilla/Thunderbird/Seamonkey mailbox like MN thinks it is?

Jean-Yves Lefort <jylefort>
Project Administrator
Sun 07 Jan 2007 05:09:42 PM UTC, original submission:

Hello,

mail-notification doesn't work with system mailboxes /var/mail/<user> or /var/spool/mail/<user>.

I use mail-notification 4.0-rc2, as it comes with debian. mail-notification displays correctly in the notification area and also displays test popups, but it doesn't do anything with real mail.

The attachment shows a screenshot of my mailbox configuration.

Any ideas?
Any help much appreciated.

--
Johannes

Johannes Zellner <joze>

 

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