Unity Mail does not display e-mail notifications
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Unity Mail |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Robert Tari |
Bug Description
Hi,
I am using Unity Mail version 1.7.6 on Ubuntu 16.04.3.
This very useful application does not display e-mail notifications in my system anymore.
To try detect this problem I ran it in the gnome-terminal to see messages from the log.
I used the command ($unity-mail) in the terminal and the notifications appeared.
When Unity Mail is launched from the Unity Dash the messages don't appear.
So, I open the unity-mail.desktop file in the /usr/share/
-> Exec=unity-mail-url Home
to:
-> Exec=unity-mail
Now, the application works fine!!!
I don't know if this can be considered as a bug, but this little trick solved the problem.
Thanks.
I cannot confirm this at this point, since it works for me as expected.
This is also a bit strange, since "unity-mail-url Home" is the default action for the Unity Mail icon. If the application is running, it will do what you tell it to do in settings - otherwise, it will call "unity-mail" for you.
It seems to me that in your case "unity-mail-url Home" does not start the application. Could you please try the following from the terminal (make sure you have at least one unread message in your inbox):
1. killall unity-mail
2. unity-mail-url Home
The second command should start Unity Mail and exit immediately, but leave the application running, so there should be no output, just a clean command prompt.