maildirs on desktop

espo · 2007-03-19 15:22:46

Hi there,
i want to see all my maildirs from mutt on my desktop to see if i get new mails without opening mutt
everytime! I tried it with conky but i can define only one maildir there. So maybe one of you got
a hint for me.

Greetings
eSpo

smoon · 2007-03-19 17:16:58

Embrace might work for you. I have not tried it though.

Stalwart · 2007-03-19 21:26:20

For KDE there's superkaramba

mucknert · 2007-03-20 07:36:56

conky is actually a way to go if you do it right but it depends on the Format. From your post, I deduct that you are using the MailDir-Format. Therein lies the solution of the problem: every MailDir-Directory has another subdir called "new". Now, conky can execute sh-commands with a timed delay which is handed over in seconds and then display the output. Some ls/cut/grep/wc-magic could reveal the number of new items in your MailDirs, either isolated or combined into one output.

$ ls /path/to/mails/*/new/ | wc -w | cut -c 7-8

That would display the number of new eMails in total up to 99. Adjust the cut parameters for more.

$ ls /path/to/mails/specific_dir/new/ | wc -w | cut -c 7-8

That would display the number of eMails in only one MailDir.

Together with execi in your conkyrc, you got a winner.

z3ppelin · 2007-03-20 14:02:27

you can do it in conky by setting

mail_spool $HOME/.mail/

and then

$new_mails

mucknert · 2007-03-20 14:24:24

z3ppelin:
IIRC, that does not really work with the MailDir-Format. At least it did not for me.

z3ppelin · 2007-03-20 14:54:51

i have maildir and it works like a charm...

mucknert · 2007-03-20 19:03:10

Damn you then!

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maildirs on desktop

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