Re: [dwm] dwm new message notification

Engin Tola dixit (2007-12-11, 14:46):

> I just check the size of the mail file to see if it is non-zero. And
> then I print an 'M' to my status bar like this:
>
> mail_file=/var/mail/tola
> if [ -s $mail_file ]
> then
> mail=M
> else
> mail=''
> fi

I have a background fetchmail (via postfix and procmail) fetching my
e-mails to my maildirs (most of the mail gets into the INBOX, while the
mailing lists (like dwm) are sorted out into specific folders.

Here's the bit of my statusbar script for displaying the number of
unread messages in respective maildirs:

############################################################
# Maildir UNREAD messages (deforked, pure bash version)

for dir in /var/spool/mail/antoni/new/ /home/antoni/mail/*/new/; do
        count=0
        for k in ${dir}/*; do
                [[ -f ${k} ]] && ((count++))
        done

        if [[ ${count} -ne 0 ]]; then
                dir=${dir/\/var\/spool\/mail\/antoni\/new\//Spool}
                dir=${dir/\/home\/antoni\/mail\//}
                dir=${dir/\/new\//}
                MAIL="${dir}: ${count} · ${MAIL}"
        fi
done

############################################################

Best,

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