mail-notification cannot connect to evolution

[pietro2580]

After upgrading my ubuntu 8.10 to 9.04, I apparently obtained evolution 2.26.1. However, after upgrading the mail-notification software cannot connect anymore to Evolution. Running the command:
>mail-notification -p
gives the following information: "Unhandled Evolution mailbox (Unable to contact evolution)"
Trying to remove the old mailbox and adding a new mail-box gives the following warning:
"Mail Notification can not contact Evolution. Make sure that Evolution is running and that the Evolution Jean-Yves Lefort's Mail Notification plugin is loaded."
Reinstallation using the synaptic package manager of Ubuntu does not solve the problem. However, the command
>mail-notification -v
indicates that the evolution backend is available.

However, when installing mail-notification from the source code, it cannot find evolution installed during configuration (./jb configure). Also adding the evolution-plugin-dir did not solve the problem...

WARNING: Package evolution-plugin was not found in the pkg-config search path.
WARNING: Perhaps you should add the directory containing `evolution-plugin.pc'
WARNING: to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
WARNING: No package 'evolution-plugin' found
WARNING: disabling option "evolution" since Evolution was not found

--- full output of configure script --

checking for ngettext(), dgettext(), bind_textdomain_codeset() in libc... yes
checking for msgfmt... /usr/bin/msgfmt
checking for perl... /usr/bin/perl
checking for XML::Parser... yes
checking for gconftool-2... /usr/bin/gconftool-2
checking for scrollkeeper-preinstall... /usr/bin/scrollkeeper-preinstall
checking for scrollkeeper-update... /usr/bin/scrollkeeper-update
checking for scrollkeeper-config... /usr/bin/scrollkeeper-config
checking for the OMF directory... /usr/share/omf
checking for the ScrollKeeper database directory... /var/lib/rarian
checking for dbus-binding-tool... /usr/bin/dbus-binding-tool
checking for gob2... not found
checking the C compiler dependency style... GCC
checking for the GNU C library... yes
checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config
checking for GNOME... yes
checking for D-Bus... yes
checking for GMime... yes
checking for GNOME Keyring... yes
checking the host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking if the DNS resolver is reentrant... yes
checking the host CPU endianness... little-endian
checking for Cyrus SASL >= 2.0... no
WARNING: disabling option "sasl" since Cyrus SASL was not found
checking for OpenSSL >= 0.9.6... yes
checking whether OpenSSL supports multi-threading... yes
checking for Evolution... no
WARNING: Package evolution-plugin was not found in the pkg-config search path.
WARNING: Perhaps you should add the directory containing `evolution-plugin.pc'
WARNING: to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
WARNING: No package 'evolution-plugin' found
WARNING: disabling option "evolution" since Evolution was not found
checking for timegm() in libc... yes

Mail Notification 5.4 was configured successfully.
The following variables are in effect:

  Compiler options:

    cc: cc
    cflags: -O2
    cppflags:
    ldflags:
    libs:
    cc-dependency-tracking: yes

  Installation options:

    destdir:
    prefix: /usr
    bindir: $prefix/bin
    libdir: $prefix/lib
    libexecdir: $prefix/libexec
    datadir: $prefix/share
    sysconfdir: $prefix/etc
    localstatedir: $prefix/var
    data-mode: 0644
    data-owner:
    data-group:
    program-mode: 0755
    program-owner:
    program-group:
    library-mode: 0644
    library-owner:
    library-group:
    gconf-config-source: xml:merged:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults
    gconf-schemas-dir: $datadir/gconf/schemas
    install-gconf-schemas: yes
    help-dir: $datadir/gnome/help
    omf-dir: /usr/share/omf
    scrollkeeper-dir: /var/lib/rarian
    evolution-plugin-dir: autodetect

  External programs:

    msgfmt: /usr/bin/msgfmt
    perl: /usr/bin/perl
    gconftool-2: /usr/bin/gconftool-2
    scrollkeeper-preinstall: /usr/bin/scrollkeeper-preinstall
    scrollkeeper-update: /usr/bin/scrollkeeper-update
    dbus-binding-tool: /usr/bin/dbus-binding-tool
    gob2:

  Mailbox backends:

    evolution: no
    gmail: yes
    hotmail: yes
    imap: yes
    maildir: yes
    mbox: yes
    mh: yes
    mozilla: yes
    pop3: yes
    sylpheed: yes
    yahoo: yes

  IMAP and POP3 features:

    ipv6: yes
    sasl: no
    ssl: yes

Type "./jb build" to build Mail Notification 5.4.

[pietro2580 (pietro2580)]

Apparently after upgrading of some evolution packages in Ubuntu, the problem is solved. I could again connect from mail-notification to evolution. Here is the log of the update (if needed):

Upgraded the following packages:
evolution (2.26.1-0ubuntu1) to 2.26.1-0ubuntu2
evolution-common (2.26.1-0ubuntu1) to 2.26.1-0ubuntu2
evolution-dbg (2.26.1-0ubuntu1) to 2.26.1-0ubuntu2
evolution-documentation-en (2.26.1-0ubuntu1) to 2.26.1-0ubuntu2
evolution-plugins (2.26.1-0ubuntu1) to 2.26.1-0ubuntu2
evolution-plugins-experimental (2.26.1-0ubuntu1) to 2.26.1-0ubuntu2

[Andrew Conkling (andrewski)]

pietro, that is not the case for me; I have all those versions of all of those packages and it still doesn't work.

[thanhbv (thanhbv)]

Yes, like Andrew, it still doesn't work for me.

On Thu, 2009-06-04 at 19:26 +0000, Andrew Conkling wrote:
> pietro, that is not the case for me; I have all those versions of all of
> those packages and it still doesn't work.
>
> --
> mail-notification cannot connect to evolution
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/376812
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>
> Status in Mail Notification: Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> After upgrading my ubuntu 8.10 to 9.04, I apparently obtained evolution 2.26.1. However, after upgrading the mail-notification software cannot connect anymore to Evolution. Running the command:
> >mail-notification -p
> gives the following information: "Unhandled Evolution mailbox (Unable to contact evolution)"
> Trying to remove the old mailbox and adding a new mail-box gives the following warning:
> "Mail Notification can not contact Evolution. Make sure that Evolution is running and that the Evolution Jean-Yves Lefort's Mail Notification plugin is loaded."
> Reinstallation using the synaptic package manager of Ubuntu does not solve the problem. However, the command
> >mail-notification -v
> indicates that the evolution backend is available.
>
> However, when installing mail-notification from the source code, it cannot find evolution installed during configuration (./jb configure). Also adding the evolution-plugin-dir did not solve the problem...
>
> WARNING: Package evolution-plugin was not found in the pkg-config search path.
> WARNING: Perhaps you should add the directory containing `evolution-plugin.pc'
> WARNING: to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
> WARNING: No package 'evolution-plugin' found
> WARNING: disabling option "evolution" since Evolution was not found
>
> --- full output of configure script --
>
> checking for ngettext(), dgettext(), bind_textdomain_codeset() in libc... yes
> checking for msgfmt... /usr/bin/msgfmt
> checking for perl... /usr/bin/perl
> checking for XML::Parser... yes
> checking for gconftool-2... /usr/bin/gconftool-2
> checking for scrollkeeper-preinstall... /usr/bin/scrollkeeper-preinstall
> checking for scrollkeeper-update... /usr/bin/scrollkeeper-update
> checking for scrollkeeper-config... /usr/bin/scrollkeeper-config
> checking for the OMF directory... /usr/share/omf
> checking for the ScrollKeeper database directory... /var/lib/rarian
> checking for dbus-binding-tool... /usr/bin/dbus-binding-tool
> checking for gob2... not found
> checking the C compiler dependency style... GCC
> checking for the GNU C library... yes
> checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config
> checking for GNOME... yes
> checking for D-Bus... yes
> checking for GMime... yes
> checking for GNOME Keyring... yes
> checking the host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
> checking if the DNS resolver is reentrant... yes
> checking the host CPU endianness... little-endian
> checking for Cyrus SASL >= 2.0... no
> WARNING: disabling option "sasl" since Cyrus SASL was not found
> checking for OpenSSL >= 0.9.6... yes
> checking whether OpenSSL supports multi-threading... yes
> checking for Evolution... no
> WARNING: Package evolution-plugin was not found in t...

[Max Riveiro (kavu)]

I'll add my 5 cents.
What i tried to make mail-notification work.

System info:

!# uname -a
Linux horned 2.6.28-13-generic #44-Ubuntu SMP Tue Jun 2 07:55:09 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux

!# evolution --version
GNOME evolution 2.26.1

Then i installed on deps for mail-notification

!# sudo aptitude install gettext libdbus-glib-1-dev libgconf2-dev libgtk2.0-dev libgnomeui-dev libgnomevfs2-dev libglade2-dev libnotify-dev libgmime2-dev evolution-dev

Running ./jb configure

checking for ngettext(), dgettext(), bind_textdomain_codeset() in libc... yes
checking for msgfmt... /usr/bin/msgfmt
checking for perl... /usr/bin/perl
checking for XML::Parser... yes
checking for gconftool-2... /usr/bin/gconftool-2
checking for scrollkeeper-preinstall... /usr/bin/scrollkeeper-preinstall
checking for scrollkeeper-update... /usr/bin/scrollkeeper-update
checking for scrollkeeper-config... /usr/bin/scrollkeeper-config
checking for the OMF directory... /usr/share/omf
checking for the ScrollKeeper database directory... /var/lib/rarian
checking for dbus-binding-tool... /usr/bin/dbus-binding-tool
checking for gob2... not found
checking the C compiler dependency style... GCC
checking for the GNU C library... yes
checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config
checking for GNOME... yes
checking for D-Bus... yes
checking for GMime... yes
checking for GNOME Keyring... yes
checking the host system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
checking if the DNS resolver is reentrant... yes
checking the host CPU endianness... little-endian
checking for Cyrus SASL >= 2.0... no
WARNING: disabling option "sasl" since Cyrus SASL was not found
checking for OpenSSL >= 0.9.6... yes
checking whether OpenSSL supports multi-threading... yes
checking for Evolution... yes
checking for the Evolution plugin directory... /usr/lib/evolution/2.26/plugins
checking for timegm() in libc... yes

Mail Notification 5.4 was configured successfully.
The following variables are in effect:

  Compiler options:

    cc: cc
    cflags: -O2
    cppflags:
    ldflags:
    libs:
    cc-dependency-tracking: yes

  Installation options:

    destdir:
    prefix: /usr
    bindir: $prefix/bin
    libdir: $prefix/lib
    libexecdir: $prefix/libexec
    datadir: $prefix/share
    sysconfdir: $prefix/etc
    localstatedir: $prefix/var
    data-mode: 0644
    data-owner:
    data-group:
    program-mode: 0755
    program-owner:
    program-group:
    library-mode: 0644
    library-owner:
    library-group:
    gconf-config-source: xml:merged:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults
    gconf-schemas-dir: $datadir/gconf/schemas
    install-gconf-schemas: yes
    help-dir: $datadir/gnome/help
    omf-dir: /usr/share/omf
    scrollkeeper-dir: /var/lib/rarian
    evolution-plugin-dir: /usr/lib/evolution/2.26/plugins

  External programs:

    msgfmt: /usr/bin...

[Frank Abel (frankabel)]

I have this bug too in 9.04, with all the updates.

[Pug (pug226)]

I believe this may be a duplicate of bug 355209 (https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/355209). The workaround provided by IanW (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mail-notification/+bug/355209/comments/3) resolved this problem.

The problem is a simple version missmatch. You can confirm this by checking the version of the plugin directories for the following packages.

# dpkg -L mail-notification-evolution
...
/usr/lib/evolution/2.24/plugins
/usr/lib/evolution/2.24/plugins/org-jylefort-mail-notification.eplug
/usr/lib/evolution/2.24/plugins/liborg-jylefort-mail-notification.so

# dpkg -L evolution-plugins
...
/usr/lib/evolution/2.26
/usr/lib/evolution/2.26/plugins

However, after finally getting mail-notification to communicate with evolution, it still doesn't work as expected. If you use the "Evolution" mailbox type, mail-notification requires evolution to be running. I ended up adding the mailboxes into mail-notification, bypassing evolution for the notifications.

If this bug is about compiling mail-notification to work with evolution, then please ignore this post.

[Miloš Mandarić (mandzo18)]

Did anyone who still have issues tried this https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mail-notification/+bug/355209 solution?

[Raoul Verveer (lazy-r)]

#7: The workaround creating symlinks resolved my issues in 9.04.

[reliable-robin-22 (nicolasdiogo)]

Hi,

just to inform that the same problem still happens in ubuntu Karmic x64.

i suppose it has been forgotten..

with regards,

[thanhbv (thanhbv)]

hi,
Here is my solution:
In Karmic:
1. install mail-notification-evolution (this is the Evolution Jean-Yves Lefort's Mail Notification plugin)
2. Copy 2 files:
   liborg-jylefort-mail-notification.so, org-jylefort-mail-notification.eplug
   in folder: /usr/lib/evolution/2.24/plugins/
   to folder: /usr/lib/evolution/2.28/plugins/
3. Run evolution. Menu Edit/ Plugins. Disable "Mail Notification", Enable "Jean-Yves Lefort's Mail Notification"
4. Run Mail Notification

[Paulius Sladkevičius @ hbee (komsas)]

thanks thanhbv,

Your solution works.

[kenjiru (kenjiru)]

It works, but this bug is embarrassing..

[Rob (robatcb)]

Did try this, still can't get the plugin to start.
Now i get:

(evolution:21043): evolution-plugin-lib-WARNING **: can't load plugin '/usr/lib/evolution/2.22/plugins/liborg-jylefort-mail-notification.so': libcamel-provider-1.2.so.11: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

(evolution:21043): evolution-plugin-lib-WARNING **: Cannot resolve symbol 'org_jylefort_mail_notification_folder_changed' in plugin '/usr/lib/evolution/2.22/plugins/liborg-jylefort-mail-notification.so' (not exported?)

[cement_head (andorjkiss)]

You have to re-roll the plugins with a patch from debian; done on Natty.

Attached as a zip file are the patched debs.

Cheers,
CH

[Decaos (decaos-dk)]

I apologize for my bad English, I'm using the google translator, I have the same problem as Rob (robatcb), is there any solution or packages for amd64?
thanks