Re: [wmii] Need help with mailnotifier, I am confused

shouldnt it be

$(cat '/home/niels/.wmii-3.5/mail.status')"
and not
$(cat '/home/niels/.wmii-3.5/mail')"

On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 1:20 PM, Niels Rasmussen <nielsrasmus_AT_gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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
> Registered Linux user #133791
> Get counted at http://counter.li.org
>
>
>
Received on Mon Feb 25 2008 - 19:28:35 UTC