Comment 1 for bug 599705

Ok maybe useful for slack users :-)

Waiting for a new version that can solve major issue I was able to compile and run gnome-mail-notification on slack13.1 + gsb 2.30 + gmime 2.4.x

1) Get slackbuild and source files from slackbuild.org :
 - http://slackbuilds.org/repository/13.1/network/gnome-mail-notification/

2) Get all patches released from here http://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/mail-notification/
- (click on upper right link SVN Entries (extra x86_64) and download all .patch files
3) copy or move all patches inside the slackbuild dir for gnome-mail-notification

4) modify the gnome.mail-notification.Slackbuild to apply all patches, including following rows just before the configure and make commands

  patch -Np0 -i "$CWD/dont-update-cache.patch" || return 1
  patch -Np0 -i "$CWD/remove-ubuntu-special-case.patch" || return 1
  patch -Np1 -i "$CWD/gmime-2.4.patch" || return 1
  patch -Np1 -i "$CWD/evolution-gtkhtml.patch" || return 1
  patch -Np0 -i "$CWD/evolution.patch" || return 1
  patch -Np0 -i "$CWD/mail-notification-5.4-icons.patch" || return 1

(these are patches available in Sept 2010, maybe further patches can be added)

5) execute the slackbuild...then if everything goes well
6) ..install the tgz and enjoy gnome-mail-notification :)

Snoopydas