On Tue, Nov 07, 2017 at 08:11:49AM +1100, Cameron Simpson wrote: > On 06Nov2017 00:09, Nicolas Sebrecht <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 05, 2017 at 09:36:49PM +0100, Pétùr wrote: > > > If it is safe, how can you would do it? I can obviously start a > > > terminal ("xfce4-terminal -e "offlineimap -o") but I don't want to see > > > a terminal window appears. > > You could start the terminal window inconified. Xterm et al have a -iconic > option, not sure that the equivalent is for xfce4-terminal.
Good idea. I have now a shortcurt: xfce4-terminal -e "offlineimap -o" --minimize --title=Offlineimap About the first question, could you confirm running two instances of offlineimap (one in a cron job and the other with the shortcut below, time to time) is ok? > > > I guess power users of offlineimap as a proper solution for temporary > > > emails check. > > > > I guess most of the users open a terminal to manually start a run, yes. > > You could start offlineimap in a tmux or screen session, detached. > > For myself, I start a bunch of things inside nicely named tmux sessions. You > could use screen if that is your preference; I moved to tmux from screen a > few years ago. This has the advantage that one can reconnect to the session > and interrupt it, etc, versus your more traditional "run a daemon from cron > or the system rc files". > > My ritual for this is to issue a command "tm start", which (a) uses my "tm" > convenience script and a ~/.tmrc file with session names and commands in it. > This starts a bunch of (detached) named sessions running useful stuff (mail > fetchers and so forth). > > "tm" is here: > > https://bitbucket.org/cameron_simpson/css/src/tip/bin/tm > > Some example entries from my own .tmrc file: > > GETMAIL -K 'cd var/log' -K rig-getmail > HAPROXY -K 'svc start haproxy' > MAILFILER -K 'cd var/log/mailfiler' -K 'mailfiler monitor -d 1' > MONITOR_ROUTES -K 'set-route-flags --monitor' > PORTFWD -K 'cd var/log/portfwd' -K 'tail -F portfwd-* &' -K 'portfwd -A &' > SSHFS -K 'cd mnt' -K 'run-sshfs' > > Cheers, > Cameron Simpson <[email protected]> (formerly [email protected]) Thanks, interesting ! Petùr _______________________________________________ OfflineIMAP-project mailing list: [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/offlineimap-project OfflineIMAP homepages: - https://github.com/OfflineIMAP - http://offlineimap.org
