On Sat, 2007-12-08 at 10:27 +0000, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > Gavin Simpson wrote: > > Correct me if I'm wrong, but I have not added any mail notification > > applets to my Gnome desktop in Fedora 8, though I do get a message in > > the system tray/notification area about new mail when Evolution polls > > the IMAP server (Evolution itself is set to check every 10 minutes) - > > but I thought this was generated by Evolution itself using inotify - is > > this correct? > No. Inotify allows one process to notice when some local file or files > have changed. AFAIK it has nothing to do with network protocols (even if > your "local" files are actually NFS-mounted). > > I certainly haven't asked to an email applet to tell me > > new mail has arrived - but I do get a flashing letter icon in the system > > tray when new mail comes in, but only in Evolution. Evolution is set to > > not notify me when new mail arrives (in the preferences) but that seems > > to be related to flashing the screen or playing a beep - I can't see > > anything about stopping the notification in the system tray. > > > IIRC this is controlled by a plugin (away from my machine at the moment > so I can't check) but in any case the Evo notifier shouldn't cause the > problem.
OK, thanks Patrick. So that leaves something being done on the server. I'll have to take this up with our sys admins to check. All the best, G > > Also, note that this also affects an older version of Evolution (on FC5) > > that does not notify me in the system tray area of new mail, and was > > working quite happily prior to UCL switching IMAP server software. > > > > I will check with our systems admins as to whether other applications on > > the server could be interfering? > > > poc _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
