On 11:24 Sun 14 Feb 2021, Cameron Simpson wrote:
On 13Feb2021 19:29, Bhaskar Chowdhury <unixbhas...@gmail.com> wrote:On 07:40 Sat 13 Feb 2021, Cameron Simpson wrote:On 12Feb2021 09:36, Kevin J. McCarthy <ke...@8t8.us> wrote:On Fri, Feb 12, 2021 at 09:59:38AM +0530, Bhaskar Chowdhury wrote:The problem it pops up for every new mail arrive. [...]For more sophisticated notification, you'll need to use another tool.For xample, my own new mail desktop notifications happen from my mail filer, not from mutt. This has the advantage that they still happen when mutt is closed (if you can call that an advantage).How?? Show us...share with the people ..Ok.... I collect my email with getmail, deliver to my local "+spool" mail folder, a Maildir (~/mail/spool). I filter my messages using mailfer: https://pypi.org/project/cs.app.mailfiler/ which monitors multiple Maildirs for new messages, and files them according to per-folder rules. So it watches spool, spool-in, spool-out, spool-to-phone etc. "spool" winnows some spam and lets the rest through to spool-in. spool-in files to my inbox, various mailing list folders etc. Anything not matched lands in +UNKNOWN. It is mostly spam. spool-out is what mutt's $record is set to - mutt saves sent mail there and mailfiler refiles it. spool-to-phone just has a rule to forward to my phone's email account. So, alerts. Mailfiler rules are usually quite simple, like this: !me Work from:(ALERT) which says to match messages from addresses in the group "alert" and do 2 things: - "me" save a copy in my +me folder, my "priority inbox" - "!" run the $ALERT command with the message and save a copy to the targets named in $ALERT_TARGETS They're set like this: ALERT=alert ALERT_TARGETS="F,spool-to-phone" So $ALERT runs my "alert" command, a script. Details below. $ALERT_TARGETS says: - "F" (F)lag the message (same as mutt's (F)lag command) so that it is highlighted in mutt's index - "spool-to-phone" save a copy in my +spool-to-phone folder, which mailfiler also monitors (its rules say forward a copy to my phone's email account) The desktop popup comes from my "alert"r script: https://hg.sr.ht/~cameron-simpson/css/browse/bin/alert?rev=tip That will issue alerts to a variety of places depending on envvars and options particularly my dlog (a timestamped text log I use for reviewing things, since my invoicing system is a ghastly hack held together with string) and to the desktop.
Thanks! .....but depending too much of other software makes it fragile and prone to error and least to say it is complex. Ordinary mortals(i.e me) who has less technical bend of mind, will run away from this. I do understand simplicity can not achieved without by digging and getting into the rabbit hole...again but...how many are willing(including me, I am an truest sense lazy person) ... Anyway, your manipulation to get the simple task done very commanding ,alas! If I could follow. Not to deny, I do fall on fetchmail , procmail et al along with mutt(the love for something do wonder) , but more to it ...nope...
The "desktop alert" part of that script is in the $to_desktop if-statement at the bottom. Presently I'm on a Mac and use the "terminal-notifier" command to issue a normal Mac Notification popup. I'd be using whatever Linux desktop notification command line were suitable were I on Linux.
notify-send is the "lightest" and "efficient" way of doing it on Linux.
I presume there _is_ a standard way to issue a popup alert on Linux systems these days? I used to just always run a permanent very short full-width terminal across the top of the screen tailing a log file myself, crude but effective. The same terminal also accepted commands if you typed them. Anyway, that is how this is hooked into my email. Suggestions for current Linux or other UNIX desktop popup command line tools welcomed.
As mentioned use notify-send.
Finally, I don't have the ability to create something native(think of it as excuse not to put effort,if you like :) ) OR we don't want mutt to be convoluted with some "airy-fairy" stuff. I am happy with it's limitation(partly because of my lack of understanding and as mentioned ability to extends it,being using it for long time though).
Cheers, Cameron Simpson <c...@cskk.id.au>
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