Ubuntu
mail-notification package

No longer launches mail reader after upgrading to etch

Bug #67492 reported by silsor
4
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mail-notification (Ubuntu)
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Undecided
Pascal Giard

Bug Description

Binary package hint: mail-notification

After upgrading to etch, mail-notification can no longer start mutt when clicked with new mail waiting. When run from a terminal, mail-notification prints the message "no recipients were specified" each time it is clicked and should launch mutt. Mutt is specified as my preferred mail reader in System->Preferences->Preferred Applications, and worked perfectly before the upgrade.

If I switch the preferred mail reader to Evolution it is able to start correctly. I also tried setting up a custom mail reader under "Preferred Applications" which would only start mutt in a terminal, but got the same "no recipients were specified" error.

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Jeff Greene (jeffgreene) wrote :

Etch? Do you mean Edgy? If you really mean Etch, you should be reporting this on the Debian bug tracker:
http://www.debian.org/Bugs/

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Pascal Giard (pascalgiard-debian) wrote :

I believe this has been fixed in debian's 3.0.dfsg.1-5¹.
We're now at 3.0.dfsg.1-7 and 3.0.dfsg.1-8 is making its way thru.

¹ Look for the patch 03-proper_cmd_handling.diff:
http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/m/mail-notification/mail-notification_3.0.dfsg.1-7/changelog.html#versionversion3.0.dfsg.1-5

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Pascal Giard (pascalgiard-debian) wrote :

Please confirm weither this has been fixed or not.

Changed in mail-notification:
assignee: nobody → pascalgiard-debian
Pascal Giard (pascalgiard-debian)
Changed in mail-notification:
status: Unconfirmed → Needs Info
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William Grant (wgrant) wrote :

As described in the previous comments, your report lacks the information we need to investigate the problem further. We'll close this report for now - please reopen it if you can give us the missing information.

Changed in mail-notification:
status: Needs Info → Rejected
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