When using notifier for non-google domain, URL to mailbox is wrong

[Lars Engebretsen]

Binary package hint: gmail-notify

Using gmail-notify for a gmail account on a non-google domain works just fine by specifying <email address hidden> as the user name. However, the URL used for going to the mailbox should in this case be

http://mail.google.com/a/domain.tld/

instead of just

http://gmail.google.com/

Release of Ubuntu:
$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 8.04.1
Release: 8.04

Version of package:
$ apt-cache policy gmail-notify
gmail-notify:
  Installerad: 1.6.1-3ubuntu2.1
  Kandidat: 1.6.1-3ubuntu2.1
  Versionstabell:
 *** 1.6.1-3ubuntu2.1 0
        500 http://ch.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/universe Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     1.6.1-3ubuntu2 0
        500 http://ch.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/universe Packages

[Lars Engebretsen (lars-engebretsen)]

I think that the following patch fixes the problem:

$ diff notifier.py~ notifier.py
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> url = "http://mail.google.com/"
> useranddomain = self.options["gmailusername"].split('@')
> if len(useranddomain)>1:
> url += "a/"+useranddomain[1]+"/"
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< print "launching browser "+self.options['browserpath']+" http://gmail.google.com"
< os.system(self.options['browserpath']+" http://gmail.google.com &")
---
> print "launching browser "+self.options['browserpath']+" "+url
> os.system(self.options['browserpath']+" "+url+"&")

[Lars Engebretsen (lars-engebretsen)]

P.S. The above patch might in fact also fix the problem that prompted bug 257198.