Installation of mail-notification with SSL support

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mail-notification is a notification icon in the Gnome tray area which indicates when you have new mails. By default on Ubuntu this application comes with SSL support disabled, making it impossible to connect to POP3 and IMAP mail boxes with SSL. To solve this do as follows:

  • 1. sudo apt-get install dpkg-dev libssl-dev fakeroot devscripts
  • 2. apt-get source mail-notification
  • 3. sudo apt-get build-dep mail-notification
  • 4. cd mail-notification*.dfsg.1
  • 5. vi debian/rules
Remove "--disable-ssl" from the row starting with DEB_CONFIGURE_EXTRA_FLAGS
  • 6. dch -n
Change version by appending ".0.0.yourname.0" at the end
Enter some appropriate description, for example "Enabled SSL support"
  • 7. fakeroot dpkg-buildpackage -b -uc -us
  • 8. sudo dpkg -i mail-notification_*.deb

You should now have the mail-notification application installed and you are ready to configure and use it.

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