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Thanks for the response Grant and Willie! |
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I'm not sure that the xfce4 mail watch plugin is going to be helpful. |
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I currently have mutt configured as an IMAP client and I have yet to |
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find a tool that can poll individual "folders" (or mailboxes) on a |
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remote IMAP system. |
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Because everything is remote, I can't tell bash to check for mail |
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locally. Not to mention I'm a zsh user. ;) |
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I actually configured mutt with a list of mailboxes, but because I |
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have so many mailboxes mutt actually became completely unresponsive |
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and would take over 5 minutes to actually load completely. Bummer. |
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I must admit that Thunderbird is pretty good about keeping tabs on the |
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many mailboxes I have and updating me when something new pops up. |
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From what I've been told, gbuffy is one of the few tools that actually |
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does what I'm looking for, but as Grant mentioned it won't compile |
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successfully (at least not using the ebuild in the portage tree). |
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Any thoughts on how to do this when using IMAP and lots of folders? :) |
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-j |
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On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 2:00 PM, Willie Wong <wwong@×××××××××.edu> wrote: |
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> On Sat, May 02, 2009 at 12:24:00PM -0400, Penguin Lover James squawked: |
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>> I've recently discovered the awesomeness of mutt. (I may be a little |
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>> late, but better late than never!) |
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> |
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> 7 year user of Mutt, and I cannot agree more. |
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>> I'm use it for my work email. I have a rather complex and lengthy set |
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>> of folders, and an equally complex procmail to go along with it. Mutt |
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>> is blazing fast at opening mail folders and sorting things, but I'm |
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>> wondering how to check when a new messages comes into a folder and |
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>> skips the inbox. |
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>> Any other suggestions? Something very lightweight would be awesome -- |
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>> even text based would be okay. What are you mutt users to check email |
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>> in all your folders? |
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> |
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> In your .bashrc (if you you bash) insert |
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> unset MAIL |
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> export MAILCHECK=15 |
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> export MAILPATH='<colon separated list of Mailboxes>' |
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> This will make bash check for new mail in your MAILPATH every 15 |
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> seconds, and will display something about you having new mail before |
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> showing the next primary prompt. |
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> |
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> If you want to get fancier, try something like mine |
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> export MAILPATH='~/Mail/inbox?You have mail from unknown sender.:~/Mail/gentoo-ml?New mail from Gentoo Mailing List.:~/Mail/work?New mail from office mates.:~/Mail/family?New mail from a family member.' |
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> (I trimmed it a bit, so you don't get the names of all my friends.) |
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> The idea is simple, and I think the syntax is self-evident. |
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> |
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> Also, in your .muttrc, you should set (if you use mbox type boxes. For |
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> maildirs the syntax is similar, but your should check the mutt manual |
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> to be sure) something like the following snip |
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> set mbox_type=mbox |
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> set folder=/home/wwong/Mail |
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> set spoolfile=/home/wwong/Mail/inbox |
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> unset mbox |
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> mailboxes =gentoo-ml =work =family |
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> This way mutt will know about your mailboxes. The spoolfile will be |
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> the default box that mutt opens. If you have bash-completion enabled, |
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> you can just type 'mutt -f =<mailbox name>' for any mailbox listed |
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> under mailboxes in .muttrc to open that mailbox. |
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> While in mutt, hitting 'c' will now first check all your mailboxes |
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> listed under the mailboxes entry in order to see if there are any new |
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> mails in those boxes, if so, it will default to the box, and you can |
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> just hit <Return> to open the box and read your new mail. If no |
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> mailbox has new mail, 'c' will bring up a prompt for the mailbox you |
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> want to change to as usual. |
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> I hope my explanation is clear enough... if you need more help, feel |
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> free to ask! |
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> Best, |
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> |
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> W |
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> -- |
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> "Pages one and two [of Zaphod's presidential speech] had |
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> been salvaged by a Damogran Frond Crested Eagle and had |
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> already become incorporated into an extraordinary new form |
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> of nest which the eagle had invented. It was constructed |
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> largely of papier mache and it was virtually impossible for |
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> a newly hatched baby eagle to break out of it. The Damogran |
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> Frond Crested Eagle had heard of the notion of survival of |
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> the species but wanted no truck with it." |
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> |
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> - An example of Damogran wildlife. |
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> Sortir en Pantoufles: up 876 days, 16:33 |
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-- |
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"Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and |
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quick to anger." |
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-Tolkien |