Gnome-Shell mail notifier 'Mailnag'

Question

Hi to everyone,
I was looking for this plugin (but it's not a javascript plugin, it's a python application) to let automatically check on gnome-shell notifier system when mail comes. Tha's the repo https://launchpad.net/mailnag. And this is how to catch:
bzr branch lp:mailnag
To run it just run mailnag_config
I tried to let it work but it can't create the configuration file (it seems that it can't create the configuration file) so i'm stuck. Maybe i'm missing some not specificated dependencies?
Thanks in advance

Answer 1

I just got mine working it seems like there is an other sneaky dependency, as the script depends on aplay from alsa-utils to play a notification sound. After installing alsa-utils, everything worked.
For your problem: I don't really know about the differences between gmail and googlemail, but try to replace ****@gmail.com with ****@googlemail.com. If you are from the UK or Germany, you could be affected by this: http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answ … wer=165761
Edit: By your request, my python packages (I'm using testing on my laptop, if that matters):
dbus-python 0.83.1-2
gstreamer0.10-python 0.10.21-1
mlt-python-bindings 0.7.2-1
mutagen 1.20-3
pygobject 2.28.4-1
pygoocanvas 0.14.1-3
pygtk 2.24.0-1
pygtksourceview2 2.10.1-3
python 3.2-2
python2 2.7.1-9
python2-cairo 1.10.0-1
python2-distribute 0.6.16-1
python2-gconf 2.28.1-7
python2-gtkspell 2.25.3-9
python2-httplib2 0.6.0-4
python-gnomekeyring 2.32.0-6
python-imaging 1.1.7-3
python-notify 0.1.1-10
pyxdg 0.19-2
pyxml 0.8.4-8
2. Edit: Looking at the source code, it seems like it tries ssl by default and then falls back to non-ssl in case of failure.
3. Edit: I extracted the code that causes your error into a standalone script. Invoke it with python2 for further investigations.
print "Importing imaplib..."
import imaplib, sys
port = 993
server = "imap.gmail.com"
print "Attempting to connect via SSL to " + server + ":" + str(port) + "..."
try: srv = imaplib.IMAP4_SSL(server, port)
except:
print "Connection failed. Falling back to non-SSL"
try: srv = imaplib.IMAP4(server, port)
except:
print "Connection failed. Exiting."
sys.exit()
print "Connection established on " + str(srv) + ".\nClosing now. "
srv.logout()
print "Finished."
Last edited by Wey (2011-06-04 21:56:30)