mail-notification, apt-build
A nice little discovery for the day was apt-build. I’ve never had cause to use it before but due to some incompatibilities with the GPL (under which mail-notification is licensed) and OpenSSL encryption support has been intentionally disabled in the package for mail-notification.
I need SSL support for checking my email and after doing some very quick reading somebody suggested apt-build. This did the job very quickly. I used apt-build build mail-notification and then edited debian/rules to comment out the --disable-ssl line before finally running apt-build install mail-notification to compile and install mail-notification with SSL support. For some reason the actualy install didn’t work but a quick dpkg -i on the resulting package did the trick.
Not as customisable as FreeBSD’s ports or Gentoo’s ebuilds, but a very neat feature that shows the designers of apt really thought things through.
Now I receive great notifications when I receive new email:
Tags: GNOME
March 5th, 2006 at 9:57 am
That looks rather cool, although I need to figure out how to install and configure some kind of IMAP server on my machine so I can actually connect using something other than mutt running directly on the server.
March 5th, 2006 at 10:50 am
Courier-IMAP only takes a few minutes to install :)
March 5th, 2006 at 12:46 pm
That’s what I thought, but I didn’t manage to get it up and running all the way last time I tried. Perhaps I’ll give it another go at some point when I’ve actually got some free time to mess around with it.