On Tuesday 07 May 2019 07:56:35 pm Dan Ritter wrote: > Gene Heskett wrote: > > I've had a problem, I think with dbus that smells a bit like this. > > > > I've a bash script that sends inotifywait to watch the mail dir in > > /var, and when one of the files is closed after writing and incoming > > mail to it, returns to my script with the name of the file and sends > > kmail a dbus message to go get mail $name. At the same time it > > relaunches inotifywait to resume the watch. kmail goes and gets the > > mail, zeroing out the contents of /var/mail/$name. But on wheezy > > that got iffy after 20+ days of uptime and I had to reboot to > > "clean" house or whatever was muching things up. In that 20 days, > > dbus probably handled 350 to 600 cycles a day. Now I haven't enough > > uptime on 64 bit stretch to test it yet. > > You're watching /var/mail/gheskett for new mail? > > Kmail can probably do that by itself.
Yes it can pull from /var/mail/$name all by itself, but thats not in step with the incoming, and kmail freezes while its doing that, sometime for a minute+ at a time. This is essentially instant reaction to an incoming mail, with a kmail freeze in milliseconds. kmail is a single threaded program. > > https://docs.kde.org/stable5/en/pim/kmail2/configure-appearance.html#c >onfigure-appearance-systemtray > > says > > If you enable the system tray icon then a small KMail icon > with the number of unread messages will be shown in the system > tray. You can enable KMail's system tray icon with Enable system > tray icon, and with System Tray Mode you can specify whether the > tray icon should always be shown or only if you have unread > messages. > > If the icon is visible then you can hide KMail's main window by > clicking on the icon or by clicking on the window close button. > By clicking on the icon you can make KMail's main window visible > again. If you click on the icon with the right mousebutton then > you get a menu with a few useful commands. You can check for new > mail, create a new message or quit KMail. Additionally, there is > the entry New Messages In which lists all folders containing > unread messages. If you choose one of those folders then this > folder will be selected in KMail's main window. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
