Looking for mailwatch app

[Grant Edwards]

On 2008-08-30, Brian J. Tarricone <bjt23 at cornell.edu> wrote:

>> How does notify-send work without using any screen space?
>
> It pops up a small notification box that disappears after a (usually 
> configurable) amount of time.

Interesting.  I'll have to work on getting a notify daemon
working.

>>> Maybe I could add some placeholders so you could do something
>>> like "notify-send Mailwatch 'You have %n new messages in
>>> mailbox %m'".  Someone should file a feature request ^_^.
>> 
>> I'm going to get it going the way it is first. :)
>
> Right... I'd need to make code changes for that to work anyway.

Couldn't the "run on new messages" program be used to send a
notification?

> I do that too, for a lot of mail, but my personal mail usually
> ends up staying in INBOX.  Ah well... different ways to deal
> with the bazillions of messages we all get.

For some reason, I could never get procmail to deliver messages
to the IMAP server's INBOX on that server.  I don't remember
the details.

>> The other reason I'd do it is so that I can turn up the logging
>> level in my IMAP servers so that they log all login/logout
>> events.  With mailwatchers on 3-4 machines logging in/out of
>> the server every minute (or even every 10 minutes), that
>> creates quite a bit of noise in the server log.  If the
>> mailwatchers kept connections up, then I could have more
>> detailed IMAP logs.
>
> Well, they wouldn't be more detailed, just have a higher S/N ratio.  I 
> imagine it shouldn't be too hard to filter out the periodic hits, though.

I didn't word that very clearly.  Right now, I don't have
logging turned up very far on my IMAP servers because of all
the noise from mailwatcher apps.  Were the mailwatcher apps to
hold connections open, then it would be practical to turn up
the logging -- resulting in more detailed logs.

-- 
Grant