mail-notification

[Aaron Konstam]

On Thu, 2006-07-20 at 14:59 -0400, Patrick Doyle wrote:
> I just installed the "mail-notification" package from extras on my
> newly minted FC5 box and I am curious... 
> 
> Why did I have to install mail-notification?
> 
> Or, equivalently, why doesn't the default GUI (Gnome2) and Email
> client (Evolution) have a feature to display an email icon when new
> mail is received? 
> 
> Or, equivalently, does such a feature exist someplace that I just
> couldn't find, short of installing an add-on package?
> 
> Or, most equivalently, what am I missing? :-)
> 
> I am new to FC5, having run SuSE 9.1 for the last couple of years (and
> various flavors of RedHat prior to that).  I've read the wiki that
> describes the distinction between core and extras.  It seems odd to me
> that some sort of mail notification capability was not considered to
> be a "core" feature.  It seems so odd as to make me wonder what I'm
> missing. 
> 
> --wpd
> 
> -- 
Evolution has that feature. Under Edit-> preferences -> Mail Preferences
-> General. You can choose no notification or various forms of
notification. Not an icon though.
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