no option to disable temporarily

[towsonu2003]

Binary package hint: mail-notification

there is no option to disable mail-notification temporarily during the ongoing session. this is useful when you are switching from wired connection (secure to check email) to wireless connection (not secure to check emails anymore as someone might be sniffing).

[towsonu2003 (towsonu2003)]

uhm, it seems I cannot triage a bug even if I opened it. please mark as wishlist.

[Heitzso (heitzso)]

How do I disable the evolution email notifier entirely?

I may stop using gnome for this one reason. Some 1000 spams come to my server every day, of which some 900 are filtered out by the server. But almost a hundred hit Evolution every day. Evolution manages to filter 2/3rds of those spam. But I'm still left with that #!(*% icon popping up every few minutes with the drop down notification that I have email which is almost always spam.

I've poked around in Evolution and Session start and don't see how to turn that annoyance off.

Side issue is there is more than one session start program w/ no name/description. I've turned them off but have no idea what I turned off.

Thanks,

[Allen Riddell (ariddell)]

This strikes me as a bug rather than a feature request. I'm finding it quite annoying.

[Nanley Chery (nanoman)]

Well, with v. 5.4 you do have the option to remove it from the notification area until it finds new mail (or after it's routine check?).

[karlrt (karlrt)]

i think this is rather a wishlist, as it would introduce a new feature.

@nanley: The feature would be to disable it completely, so no email-checks are done (no password / email data through unsecure wifi-nets),

However, this can now be done easily with $ killall mail-notification, if you are skilled, you could even write a script to tell nm to kill mail-notification once (unsecure) wifi is enabled. It would be a cool feature if you e.g. watch a film, but i think the handling of notification-supression should be done by gnome.