Overview
MailNotifier is a small addon that has two purposes: tracking how many unread mails the player has in the inbox and alerting him when new mail is received (plays a sound and flashes the minimap mail button).
Features
- Tracks how many unread mails the player has in the inbox
- Alerts the player when new mail is received
- No configuration needed
Limitations
Except when the player visits the inbox, it's impossible to know exactly how many unread mails he has. This is why Mail Notifier can only detect mails received while playing, and by comparing the mail senders list at login (ex: If you have 1 sender when you logout and 3 when you login, obviously you have at least received 2 more mails).
Notes
- For feedback, support, suggestions and bug reports, feel free to post a ticket.
- Please consider supporting MailNotifier with a donation.
- Visit me at jaliborc.com!
thanks, it really helped!
Love this addon. Is there a Classic version?
Hey I noticed for some reason the old sound file from before the 8.1 version is missing. Simply dragging the mp3 from an older version into the current one made it work perfectly fine.
Temporary fix until it's updated of course ^^;
https://gfycat.com/UnkemptPleasedAntelope
In reply to keyboardturner:
I spotted this a earlier today when I was trying to figure out why the sound file wouldn't play. Seems that the author left the NewMail.mp3 out of the archives starting with the first update for BfA. Hadn't yet gotten around to testing out if restoring the .mp3 file solved the sound error so good to know that someone else has also spotted this and confirms that it does indeed fix the error.
Changelog for 8.2.0:
In other words updated the .toc but didn't fix the sound issue because with MailNotifier v8.2.0 installed I still get:
Date: 2019-07-01 03:15:35
ID: 2
Error occured in: Global
Count: ∞
Message: ..\AddOns\MailNotifier\MailNotifier.lua line 179:
PlaySoundFile Error - Invalid fileDataID for sound.
Debug:
[C]: PlaySoundFile()
MailNotifier\MailNotifier.lua:179: AddNewMail()
MailNotifier\MailNotifier.lua:100:
MailNotifier\MailNotifier.lua:84
Locals:
(*temporary) = "Interface\AddOns\MailNotifier\NewMail.mp3"
In reply to RealGrizzlyUK:
The sound file is simply missing for some reason, I guess the addon dev forgot to package it or something. A quick fix is to just download an old version (before patch 8.1.0) with the NewMail.mp3 file and drag the mp3 it into the current addon version in your game. Works perfectly fine after that, zero errors and it makes the noise upon login.
example: https://gfycat.com/UnkemptPleasedAntelope
I had no idea Blizzard's idiot move blocking custom sounds has extended to addons.
Any ETA on fix for 8.2? I'm getting this error:
I am not hearing a sound when I get a mail. Would be nice if there was a config where you can choose the sound and the volume.
FYI @ Jaliborc
When performing a .toc update for new game versions could you please ensure you actually do update the interface number! MailNotifier Broker v21 is supposed to be updated for Shadow of Argus but it still shows the interface number as 70200 instead of 70300 so the game flags it as out of date (obviously). I would have posted this comment there but Comments for MailNotifier Broker haven't been enabled, so figured I may as well just comment here and hope it gets read someday! *shrug*
Also, will you ever investigate the bug with MailNotifier counting every mail twice?
Would it be possible to show the total count of emails, not just up to 50? If
Postal addon can access this information then this should be doable with others.
I am also seeing often an issue, when no mails are present in the inbox anymore, nothing is waiting to be refreshed, but the count is showing 1 mail.
Im having the same problem. each mail i get it counts as two.
I am having the same problem. It also shows a max of 6 mail for me regardless of how many new mails came in.
Count incriment is off. It is doubling up on mail count if you only get one mail item.
What I did to test this is I would send a single mail to an alt that had no mail at all. Logging in would intially count that mail as one then within a few second would count up to 2. I could repeat this indefinately and with only mailnotifier, the corresponding ldb addon you made and chcolatebar
I've noticed this as well.
Updated to the latest v19 (was using v17) and now I get NO new mail sound and the new mail icon never changes back to the no mail icon! With toons that do have new mail I collect all mail from the mailbox so the mailbox is empty but the MailNotifier icon still shows new mail and when I cursor over it I get the "You have about 1 new mail" tooltip. The new mail sound no longer plays either, not when I login and the toon has new mail nor when I make a purchase from the AH and the mail icon changes to show that I have new mail. I've tried relogging and restarting the game. Problem persists, also there is no error message, just a broken addon that no longer functions correctly.
I use Bazooka for DataBroker displays so I also use MailNotifier Broker to create the DataBroker launcher for MailNotifier.
Decided to check the MailNotifier Project Page to see if there were any tickets for this problem and there are 2 seperate tickets, both created on Jul 04, 2015! There's no response to either ticket from Jaliborc (author of MailNotifier) yet so I added a comment on one and upvoted both. In case anyone else wants to add a comment and/or upvote either ticket:
After taking all mail it still shows "You have about 1 unread mail"
Still shows ''have new mails'' after Clean mailbox and Sound not playing
If there's still no response from Jaliborc in about a week or so I'll try sending a PM directly to Jaliborc to, hopefully, draw attention to this.
Just to update others, I did indeed send a message to Jaliborc on 2nd September, but so far I have not received a response! :(
Further to my previous update, I've received a reply from Jaliborc today (25 Nov. 2015). He's now aware of the problems with v19 and is going to "test it out".
It should be working now.