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.
> 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
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