Alex Kilgore skrev:
>>> Could you post yor script here please ?
>>>
>>>
>> Here you go, Ive commented it to explain a little, you may have to edit it
>> to your needs, hope this helps
Thanks a lot :-)
But it won't work here :-/
I've forgot to tell you that I run offlineimap to collect my mail from gmail
into ~/Mail/INBOX
When I run the script this directory shows in my home:
/etpipe_decode=$my_pipe_decode;unsetmy_pipe_decode
and it contains the 3 dirs in my INBOX. new, cur, tmp
???? Not shure though what causes this :-/
I've made some small changes in your script according to my paths:
#####################################################################
#!/usr/bin/perl
#open file
open(STAT,'/home/niels/.wmii-3.5/mail.status');
#get the contents that the file previously had
$mailprev = <STAT>;
#if "No Mail" is written in the file, set the number of messages to 0
if ($mailprev eq "No Mail")
{
$mailprev = 0;
}
#if the file was blank, set the number of messages to 0
if ($mailprev eq "")
{
$mailprev = 0;
}
# The next line fetches the new message count from the POP3 server
#and filter out the irrelevant parts,
#for me, Fetchmail generated the relevant output :
#either "fetchmail: No Mail for ..." or "fetchmail: X messages for...."
#I used fetchmail for this,
#but you could use any other mail checking application,
#of course you would need to alter that
# so that it fits your needs, it would be very easy to use
# whatever you do to check mail, you could do something
# along the lines of
#
#
$mail = `ls -al ~/Mail/INBOX/new |wc -l`."messages";
#
# to get a message count,
# (I am not too familiar with the maildir format,
# so if I am wrong about that let me know )
#$mail = `fetchmail -c | sed -e "s/fetchmail\://" |sed -e "s/for.*//"`;
#open file for writing
open(STAT,'>/home/niels/.wmii-3.5/mail.status');
#actually write the formatted output to the file
print STAT "$mail";
#####################################################################
I call the script 'mail' and made it excutable with chmod +x mail.
I've put this in my .wmiirc:
# Status Bar Info
status() {
echo -n "$(cat '/home/niels/.wmii-3.5/mail')" "$(date +"%T | %A
%d.%m.%y | Uge %V")"
}
Only effect in the statusbar is that it writes the contents of the file in
one long line :-/
When I run the scripts in a terminal I get this:
No mail for niels
So, the script works :-)
But not in the statusbar !
--
/Niels
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