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1 email notifications |
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4 Description |
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6 This init script is based on some ideas taken from the dwm ML. It adds e… |
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7 notification using `fetchmail`. It also adds the functionality of showin… |
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8 content of the file `$HOME/.message` when it exists. This can be used for |
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9 displaying info by other programs writing to this file. |
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11 When a new email arrives a flashing text message is shown on the dwm's |
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12 status bar. |
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14 Config .fetchmailrc |
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15 ------------------- |
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16 This config works with GMail over IMAP with the IDLE extension for low b… |
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18 poll imap.gmail.com port 993 proto IMAP user "<your_user>@gmail.… |
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19 there with password "<your_pass>" keep ssl idle |
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20 |
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21 Init script |
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22 ----------- |
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23 The notification is flashing during 60 seconds, then it is removed. Lines |
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24 written to `.message` are displayed during a second in the status bar. If |
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25 `.message` is deleted, the normal status message (date and uptime) retur… |
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27 A pipe must be used with `fetchmail` when using IDLE extension because t… |
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28 it waits for updates from the inbox not doing polling. If the `.message`… |
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29 exists with some content, it is preserved and no email notification is s… |
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31 fetchmail --check 2>/dev/null | while read line; do |
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32 new=`echo $line | sed 's/(//' | awk '{print $1-$3}'` |
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33 if [ $new != 0 ] && [ ! -e ~/.message ]; then |
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34 echo "New mail($new)" > ~/.message |
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35 echo "!!! !!! !!!" >> ~/.message |
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36 sleep 60 |
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37 if grep '^New mail' ~/.message >/dev/null 2>/dev… |
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38 rm -f ~/.message |
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39 fi |
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40 fi |
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41 done & |
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42 while true; do |
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43 if [ -r ~/.message ]; then |
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44 while read line; do |
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45 xsetroot -name "$line" |
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46 sleep 1 |
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47 done < ~/.message |
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48 else |
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49 xsetroot -name "`date` `uptime | sed 's/.*,//'`" |
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50 sleep 1 |
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51 fi |
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52 done & |
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53 exec dwm |
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54 rm -f ~/.message |
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56 Author |
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57 ------ |
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58 * Ricardo Catalinas Jiménez <[email protected]> |
