Check for updates banner is annoying when using a third-party distribution that lags behind releases

[KristerV]

Are there any related issues? no
What operating system are you using? Arch Linux
Feature Request?

I would like to either disable checking for updates or just hide the notification.

I'm on Arch Linux and the AUR repo is kept up to date pretty well. I am not going to download the app manually and I don't want to update my computer every time MailSpring says so. I have a once-a-month update schedule.

This notification hides needed info and it's color takes my attention away - super annoying and not useful.

[bengotow]

Hey! Sorry for the delay—please use the Snapcraft release if you can! It autoupdates and doesn't display the notifications. It's great someone is maintaining an AUR repo but it's not us. I'll see if maybe we can take it over or publish an official AUR package in the future!

[itszaen]

Having the same annoyance, I would really just like an option in the settings menu to disable the banner. Or an "x" button to hide the banner for a period of time, although not ideal.

[nelai1]

using the snap on ubuntu, still seeing this annoying banner

[jnylen]

@bengotow Hi,
I'm the one that created the aur repo in the beginning and are collabing on it again.

Is there a safe way to disable the update notification? Such as setting the updateAvailable = false in the update-notification file? Just making sure.

Do mind we use the .deb file in the AUR repo.

[marxistvegan]

Same issue in the Solus Project (https://getsol.us) the notification is very annoying and will get updated on a weekly basis so being able to turn off that notification would be greatly appreciated.

[friday]

I found a hacky way to disable it, which requires asar:

From the path app.asar is in:

asar extract app.asar app
sed -i 's/updater.getState()/0/g' app/internal_packages/notifications/lib/items/update-notification.js
asar pack app app.asar
rm -rf app

I'm not sure it's safe, but it worked for me. The result will be larger than the original app.asar since the original build step excludes some patterns. If someone is ambitious enough, it should be possible to ignore these form the cli too, or possibly rebuild only this with gulp. 😕

...or better yet, officially support disabling the banner so we don't have to.

Addition: Hijacking the update url seems to work too:

echo -e '\n127.0.0.1 updates.getmailspring.com' | sudo tee -a /etc/hosts

[Stefan538871]

@bengotow Hi,
I know this issue started 2018 and the last comment was march 2019.
I just want to mention that I use fedora31 and apparently the rpmfusion repo is behind aswell.

Since you already mentioned snap, would it be possible to distribute this app as flatpak too?
Or as someone already mentioned an option in the settings menu to disable auto updates.
Aside from that, great email client :)

[KristerV]

@Stefan538871 that is called thread hijacking. Also this thread is stale, so closing.

[friday]

Why @KristerV? Others want to keep track of the development too and invested time in finding this issue, subscribing. commenting etc.

[KristerV]

oh, well kudos for replying fast, sure I'll reopen it then. Thought since the last comment was over a year ago.. Just for info: I'm unsubscribing since am happy with Fastmail's web interface in Franz.

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This issue has been mentioned on Mailspring Community. There might be relevant details there:

https://community.getmailspring.com/t/check-for-updates-banner-is-annoying-when-using-a-third-party-distribution-that-lags-behind-releases/542/1

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