[wiki] [sandbox.suckless.org] Added to dwm/patches an init script with email notifying capabilities. || Ricardo

From: <hg_AT_suckless.org>
Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2009 13:27:32 +0100 (BST)

changeset: 131:9c8e094b4273
tag: tip
user: Ricardo <jimenezrick_AT_gmail.com>
date: Wed Jul 08 14:26:08 2009 +0200
files: dwm.suckless.org/patches/email_notifier_script.md
description:
Added to dwm/patches an init script with email notifying capabilities.


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+EMAIL NOTIFIER SCRIPT
+=====================
+
+Description
+-----------
+
+This init script is based on some ideas taken from the dwm ML. It adds email
+notification using `fetchmail`. It also adds the functionality of showing the
+content of the file `$HOME/.message` when it exists. This can be used for
+displaying info by other programs writing to this file.
+
+When a new email arrives a flashing text message is shown on the dwm's
+status bar.
+
+Config .fetchmailrc
+-------------------
+This config works with GMail over IMAP with the IDLE extension for low bandwidth usage:
+
+ poll imap.gmail.com port 993 proto IMAP user "<your_user>_AT_gmail.com" there with password "<your_pass>" keep ssl idle
+
+Init script
+-----------
+
+The notification is flashing during 60 seconds, then it is removed. Lines
+written to `.message` are displayed during a second in the status bar. If
+`.message` is deleted, the normal status message (date and uptime) returns.
+
+A pipe must be used with `fetchmail` when using IDLE extension because this way
+it waits for updates from the inbox not doing polling.
+If the `.message` file exists with some content, it is preserved and no email
+notification is shown.
+
+ fetchmail --check 2>/dev/null | while read line; do
+ new=`echo $line | sed 's/(//' | awk '{print $1-$3}'`
+ if [ $new != 0 ] && [ ! -e ~/.message ]; then
+ echo "New mail($new)" > ~/.message
+ echo "!!! !!! !!!" >> ~/.message
+ sleep 60
+ if grep '^New mail' ~/.message >/dev/null 2>/dev/null; then
+ rm -f ~/.message
+ fi
+ fi
+ done &
+ while true; do
+ if [ -r ~/.message ]; then
+ while read line; do
+ xsetroot -name "$line"
+ sleep 1
+ done < ~/.message
+ else
+ xsetroot -name "`date` `uptime | sed 's/.*,//'`"
+ sleep 1
+ fi
+ done &
+ exec dwm
+ rm -f ~/.message
+
+Author
+------
+
+- Ricardo Catalinas Jiménez <[jimenezrick_AT_gmail.com](mailto:jimenezrick_AT_gmail.com)>
Received on Wed Jul 08 2009 - 14:27:32 CEST