mail-notification checks every new message after every reboot

[Marwan Tanager]

Usually I have a lot of unread messages in more than one mailbox on my system, and I've added those mailboxes to mail-notification.
When a new message arrives, a pop-up notification allows me to know of the new message and that's OK.

The problem happens when I reboot the system (or just restart the notifier daemon for whatever reason); mail-notification would then check for every unread message in each mailbox and notify me for every one of them. So, suppose I've 100 unread messages scattered around the mailboxes, and with my configuration of 15 seconds pop-up duration, this amounts to 25 minutes worth of pop-up notifications which is "REALLY" annoying.

I normally would think that if mail-notification have notified me before for an unread message, then, in general, it shouldn't notify me again for the same message, even after the daemon has been started (like when rebooting the machine). But, if that behavior is considered normal (and I doubt that for a user who always have busy mailboxes), then at least there should be an option that lets the user tell the daemon explicitly that he/she wants to be notified of any unread messages in the mailboxes after starting the daemon.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: mail-notification 5.4.dfsg.1-2ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-24.43-generic 2.6.32.15+drm33.5
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-24-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Sep 17 23:31:25 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100429)
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.utf8
SourcePackage: mail-notification

[dino99 (9d9)]

version no more supported; not a 'security' problem, so no backport expected