xfce4 mailwatch plugin question

[Brian J. Tarricone]

On Wed, 16 May 2007 09:54:23 -0400 Jason Keltz wrote:

>Under xfce 4.2, the previous libmailcheck.so would allow me to
>configure my global xfce preferences so that when any user started up
>xfce for the first time, the mail check would automatically look
>in /var/mail/$USER. I can't seem to find a way to configure this with
>the newer xfce4 mailwatch plugin.  I want to setup an appropriate
>default so that it will check /var/mail/$USER (mbox) for each user by
>default.  Is this possible?

You mean a systemwide default config that will look in the particular
user's mbox?  No, not possible.  File a feature request if you'd like.
Making a systemwide default isn't too hard (you just need to copy
mailwatch's config to $sysconfdir/xdg/xfce4/panel/, and edit the
panels.xml there), but mailwatch doesn't interpolate shell variables,
which is probably what you'd need to make this work.

>Also, any idea why there is a minimum 1 minute check time?  I can 
>understand this for imap or other protocols that go external, but for 
>mbox, checking say, every 30 seconds, isn't really a major problem.

Just because I arbitrarily picked 1 minute as the granularity.  I have
no interest in changing this -- it would break existing users' config
files.  IMO, there's something seriously wrong with you if you can't
wait 60 seconds to know if you have new email ^_~.

Though, for local folders/files, it should be possible to use
thunar-vfs (or something) to just do filesystem monitoring and not have
to poll at all.  Feel free to file a (separate!) feature request for
this as well.

	-brian