Mail-notification has dependency with evolution

[Ruud Mantingh]

In Ubuntu 10.04 (lucid Lynx Alpha 3) the program mail-notification cannot be installed from the repositories without installing mail-notification-evolution and thus installing evolution. As I do not use evolution and only use mail-notification to monitor my local POP accounts and GMail/Hotmail accounts I do not want the extra overhead of having evolution installed. Please remove the dependency on mail-notification-evolution.

[Carsten Agger (agger)]

Am using mail-notification with Xubuntu. Rather, I WAS, but in 10.04 it depends on Evolution. It shouldn't! Evolution support and dependency should be only in the mail-notification-evolution package.

According to this Debian bug http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=376217, they had the same issue in Debian four years ago and fixed it. It's probably a packaging issue (false dependency?) more than anything else.

(Maybe one solution would be to install it from source. Would prefer not to, though, to keep the system consistent).

[Carsten Agger (agger)]

Now, mail-notification shouldn't have dependencies with Evolution, but trying to build it from source on my Xubuntu-enabled laptop w/o GNOME installed, I found that it's very much a GNOME app. So when using Xubuntu it may be better to use the Xfce4 Mailwatch Plugin available on the XFCE panel.

This is slightly inferior, though - it does not list the new mails in the tooltip, and it also doesn't update the unread count when the IMAP mailbox is updated, e.g. by reading the email in mutt.

And still, as can be seen on the Debian bug report I mentioned, mail-notification shouldn't depend on Evolution.