Offlineimap "New Email" notification scripts

kristopher004 · 2015-03-01 08:40:30

I recently started using offlineimap/mutt to keep track of three email accounts. I wanted notifications when new email arrived so I tried some notification programs that worked with Maildir but didn't find any that I liked. So I came up with this script:

#!/bin/sh
MAILDIR1=$HOME/Email/maildir1/INBOX/new
MAILDIR2=$HOME/Email/maildir2/INBOX/new
MAILDIR3=$HOME/Email/maildir3/Inbox/new

echo "Watching $MAILDIR1"
while MAILNAME1=$(inotifywait -qe MOVED_TO --format '%f' $MAILDIR1) 
do
	echo $MAILNAME1
	mailpop $MAILDIR1/$MAILNAME1
done&

echo "Watching $MAILDIR2"
while MAILNAME2=$(inotifywait -qe MOVED_TO --format '%f' $MAILDIR2) 
do
	echo $MAILNAME2
	mailpop $MAILDIR2/$MAILNAME2 
done&

echo "Watching $MAILDIR3"
while MAILNAME3=$(inotifywait -qe MOVED_TO --format '%f' $MAILDIR3) 
do
	echo $MAILNAME3
	mailpop $MAILDIR3/$MAILNAME3 
done

I modified a script for procmail notifications I found here http://miek.nl/posts/2008/Jun/09/a-popu … rocmailrc/ for nicely formatted notifications and added two lines to speak the notification as well.

mailpop

#!/bin/bash

# popup a small notification with 'notify-send'

from=`formail -X From: < $1`
sub=`formail -X Subject: < $1`

# tweaks < > are special
from=${from//</\(}
from=${from//>/\)}
from=${from//&/\.}
sub=${sub//</\(}
sub=${sub//>/\)}
sub=${sub//&/\.}

sub=${sub:0:200}
from=${from:0:75}
TM=2000

/usr/bin/notify-send -u normal -t $TM "$from" "$sub"

while pgrep speech2 > /dev/null; do sleep 1; done
speech2 New Email ${from%(*}, With $sub, has arrived
#echo "New Email $from, With $sub has arrived" | festival --tts

At first I used festival for speech, but Google's voice sounded so much better. This script will speak up to 100 characters, just requires mplayer:

speech2

#!/bin/bash
say() { local IFS=+;/usr/bin/mplayer -ao alsa -really-quiet -noconsolecontrols "http://translate.google.com/translate_tts?tl=en&q=$*"; }
say $*

For messages with longer subjects: http://danfountain.com/2013/03/raspberr … to-speech/

Anyone else have a script/program they like for maildir notifications? Also I would be interested in making these work as a systemd user service.

jasonwryan · 2015-03-01 08:44:15

eml(){
  maildirs="$HOME/Mail/*/INBOX/new/"
  ml="$(find $maildirs -type f | wc -l)"
  if (( ml > 0 )); then
    echo -en "\x03$ml\x01"
  else
    echo "0"
  fi
}

Prints to my statusbar...

kristopher004 · 2015-03-01 09:00:48

jasonwryan wrote:

eml(){
  maildirs="$HOME/Mail/*/INBOX/new/"
  ml="$(find $maildirs -type f | wc -l)"
  if (( ml > 0 )); then
    echo -en "\x03$ml\x01"
  else
    echo "0"
  fi
}

Prints to my statusbar...

Nice, I'm going to use that if I can figure how to append it to i3status.

kristopher004 · 2015-03-01 16:31:55

For any other i3 users, jasonwryan script works great with i3status and i3bar useing the example from i3status manual:

i3status | while :
do
	read line
	echo "Email: $(eml) | $line" || exit 1
done

Edit: This is better, works with colors:

i3status | (read line && echo $line && read line && echo $line && while :
do
  read line
  dat=$(eml)
  dat="[{ \"full_text\": \"Email: ${dat}\" },"
  echo "${line/[/$dat}" || exit 1
done)

Last edited by kristopher004 (2015-03-01 18:19:00)

Trilby · 2015-03-01 17:16:37

Using inotify would prevent needing a timed loop that either eats the cpu due to looping too fast or lags due to looping to slow. I think inotify watches can be set up in bash, but I've only used it in C.

kristopher004 · 2015-03-01 17:18:41

I used inotify watches in mine, the while loops only run when inotifywait returns a value.

EDIT: I'm no bash wizard though, I'm sure there are better ways to use inotifywait, I just went by the examples I saw in the man page.

Last edited by kristopher004 (2015-03-01 17:21:02)

Trilby · 2015-03-01 17:21:26

Oops! I need to learn to read more carefully. That looks good.

Hund · 2017-10-08 05:59:50

Is it possible to remove the e-mail adress from the notification and just have the name?

Trilby · 2017-10-08 11:39:02

Yes. Did you make any attempt to do so? It's also possible to start a new thread for a completely unrelated question as opposed to necrobumping something from 2 and a half years ago.

Hund · 2017-10-08 11:49:23

Trilby wrote:

Yes. Did you make any attempt to do so? It's also possible to start a new thread for a completely unrelated question as opposed to necrobumping something from 2 and a half years ago.

Yes, but libnotify didn't really work that well with sed. `s/From://` worked, but `s/(.*)//` didn't? Completely unrelated would be asking about this in a thread about trains. And I understand that bumping old threads can sometimes be a bad idea, but I fail to see why I would be a bad idea now.

Last edited by Hund (2017-10-08 11:49:54)

Trilby · 2017-10-08 11:57:52

Your question is simply about string manipulation in the shell. The fact that the string you want to extract from came from an email is irrelevant. There are not special tools for extracting a substring from when the source string came from an email rather than somewhere else. There are just shell commans for extracting substrings (${source% <*}).

WorMzy · 2017-10-08 13:44:55

Trilby wrote:

It's also possible to start a new thread for a completely unrelated question as opposed to necrobumping something from 2 and a half years ago.

This. Please don't necrobump Hund.

Closing.

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Offlineimap "New Email" notification scripts

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