Thanks for the response Grant and Willie! I'm not sure that the xfce4 mail watch plugin is going to be helpful. I currently have mutt configured as an IMAP client and I have yet to find a tool that can poll individual "folders" (or mailboxes) on a remote IMAP system.
Because everything is remote, I can't tell bash to check for mail locally. Not to mention I'm a zsh user. ;) I actually configured mutt with a list of mailboxes, but because I have so many mailboxes mutt actually became completely unresponsive and would take over 5 minutes to actually load completely. Bummer. I must admit that Thunderbird is pretty good about keeping tabs on the many mailboxes I have and updating me when something new pops up. >From what I've been told, gbuffy is one of the few tools that actually does what I'm looking for, but as Grant mentioned it won't compile successfully (at least not using the ebuild in the portage tree). Any thoughts on how to do this when using IMAP and lots of folders? :) -j On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 2:00 PM, Willie Wong <ww...@princeton.edu> wrote: > On Sat, May 02, 2009 at 12:24:00PM -0400, Penguin Lover James squawked: >> I've recently discovered the awesomeness of mutt. (I may be a little >> late, but better late than never!) > > 7 year user of Mutt, and I cannot agree more. > >> I'm use it for my work email. I have a rather complex and lengthy set >> of folders, and an equally complex procmail to go along with it. Mutt >> is blazing fast at opening mail folders and sorting things, but I'm >> wondering how to check when a new messages comes into a folder and >> skips the inbox. > >> Any other suggestions? Something very lightweight would be awesome -- >> even text based would be okay. What are you mutt users to check email >> in all your folders? > > In your .bashrc (if you you bash) insert > > unset MAIL > export MAILCHECK=15 > export MAILPATH='<colon separated list of Mailboxes>' > > This will make bash check for new mail in your MAILPATH every 15 > seconds, and will display something about you having new mail before > showing the next primary prompt. > > If you want to get fancier, try something like mine > > export MAILPATH='~/Mail/inbox?You have mail from unknown > sender.:~/Mail/gentoo-ml?New mail from Gentoo Mailing List.:~/Mail/work?New > mail from office mates.:~/Mail/family?New mail from a family member.' > > (I trimmed it a bit, so you don't get the names of all my friends.) > The idea is simple, and I think the syntax is self-evident. > > Also, in your .muttrc, you should set (if you use mbox type boxes. For > maildirs the syntax is similar, but your should check the mutt manual > to be sure) something like the following snip > > set mbox_type=mbox > set folder=/home/wwong/Mail > set spoolfile=/home/wwong/Mail/inbox > unset mbox > mailboxes =gentoo-ml =work =family > > This way mutt will know about your mailboxes. The spoolfile will be > the default box that mutt opens. If you have bash-completion enabled, > you can just type 'mutt -f =<mailbox name>' for any mailbox listed > under mailboxes in .muttrc to open that mailbox. > > While in mutt, hitting 'c' will now first check all your mailboxes > listed under the mailboxes entry in order to see if there are any new > mails in those boxes, if so, it will default to the box, and you can > just hit <Return> to open the box and read your new mail. If no > mailbox has new mail, 'c' will bring up a prompt for the mailbox you > want to change to as usual. > > I hope my explanation is clear enough... if you need more help, feel > free to ask! > > Best, > > W > -- > "Pages one and two [of Zaphod's presidential speech] had > been salvaged by a Damogran Frond Crested Eagle and had > already become incorporated into an extraordinary new form > of nest which the eagle had invented. It was constructed > largely of papier mache and it was virtually impossible for > a newly hatched baby eagle to break out of it. The Damogran > Frond Crested Eagle had heard of the notion of survival of > the species but wanted no truck with it." > > - An example of Damogran wildlife. > Sortir en Pantoufles: up 876 days, 16:33 > > -- "Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger." -Tolkien
