Recommend a replacement for mailwatch-plugin?

[Liviu Andronic]

Dear Grant
Have you come up with a releasable IMAP notifier? I'm getting
mailwatch crashes (with lost configs) and I'd like to try something
new if available.

Thank you
Liviu


On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 11:40 PM, Grant Edwards
<grant.b.edwards at gmail.com> wrote:
> FWIW, I threw together an IMAP notifier in Python using PyGTK and
> imaplib2, and it's working nicely under "normal" circumstances.  I
> haven't had time to set up tests for things like dropped network
> connections, servers timing out, temporary login failures, etc.  It's
> about 150 lines of code and it has a couple features that I wanted but
> couldn't find in other apps:
>
>  1) Support for IMAP IDLE.  That provides "instant" notification of
>    new mail without having to poll the server on a short cycle.
>
>  2) After you click on a mailbox button to run an app (mutt, in my
>    case), and that app terminates, it will immediately poll the
>    mailbox to catch any changes that were made by that app.
>
> The second feature isn't required if you delete/move new messages,
> since IMAP IDLE will send an immediate notification of those changes.
>
> However, if you read the new mail and then leave it in the INBOX, IMAP
> IDLE won't notify you of the change in flag values.  [There is an IMAP
> extension that will notify you of flag changes, but it's not supported
> by any of the servers I use.]
>
> Use of a persistent IMAP connection and the IDLE command results in
> both quicker notification and much less overhead than the
> new-ssl-connection-and-login for every poll cycle scheme that the
> mailwatch plugin uses.
>
> If the server doesn't support IMAP idle, it falls back on a normal
> polling scheme (it still uses a persistent connection to avoid the
> overhead of repeated SSL session setup and IMAP logins).
>
> It's not a panel plugin, so it doesn't integrate quite as much with
> XFCE.
>
> It's a bit heavyweight when it comes to memory usage with a resident
> set size of about 5MB (non-shared), but the ease of development and
> testing when using Python makes it worth it.
>
> I'll make the code available after I do some more testing and move the
> configuration info into an external file.
>
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