Hi,
Felt like sharing this. This was what I did.
#!/bin/perl
use Mail::IMAPClient;
$host = "my-mail-server";
$id = "uday";
$pass=xxxxxxxx;
$folder = "INBOX";
$imap = Mail::IMAPClient->new(
Server => $host,
User => $id,
Password=> $pass,
Fast_io=>1,
) or die "Cannot connect to $host as $id: $@";
while (1) {
$imap->connect;
$count = 0;
defined($count = $imap->recent_count($folder))
or die "Could not recent_count: [EMAIL PROTECTED]";
print STDERR "the count is ", $count, " new
messages\n";
if ($count){
open MAILFILE, ">mail" or die "unable to open mail
file\n";
print MAILFILE "new mail";
}
$imap->logout;
close MAILFILE;
sleep 300;
};
and set fvwmtaskbar to watch on mail file.
Thanks
Uday
On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 05:54:06AM -0700, uday bhaskar
wrote:
Sorry for the late reply.
> Not sure if this is the appropriate place to ask
this question, please
> redirect me to the appropriate palce.
>
> My question is how do I use the "FvwmTaskbar
MailBox"
> setting when I use IMAP for my mail access. All fvwm
says is add the
> path. Can someone help me out with how the path has
to be specified.
> {imap.domain.com}INBOX does not work.
FvwmTaskBar just watches a file for new mails. You
could use some other program such as fetchmail to
download the mails to a local file. If this is
inacceptable, you can make some external script that
checks for new mail and writes something to a fake
mailbox,
e.g.:
#!/bin/sh
echo > /tmp/have_new_mail
while true; do
if new_mail_in_imap_box; then
echo "new mail" >> /tmp/have_new_mail
fi
sleep 300
done
And tell FvwmTaskBar to watch the /tmp/have_new_mail
file instead of a real mailbox:
*FvwmTaskBar: MailBox /tmp/have_new_mail
The difficult part is to write the
"new_mail_in_imap_box" command or function. Since I
never used IMAP, I don't know what tools there are to
do it.
Ciao
Dominik ^_^ ^_^
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