Re: [Nmh-workers] IMAP/nmh, again

[Ralph Corderoy]

Hi,

Ken wrote:
> I think it would be VERY easy to write a simple tool which just opened
> a connection to your IMAP server, ran the IDLE command, waited for
> updates from the IMAP server and simply ran a script when it got new
> mail

There are heavyweights that do this, e.g.
http://www.nongnu.org/mailnotify/ and
https://bitbucket.org/gsauthof/trysterobiff.  Overkill, perhaps, but I
think both allow arbitrary commands to be run on "new mail".
https://github.com/Jonhoo/hasmail#readme is a tray icon using
https://github.com/emersion/go-imap-idle#readme.

And I found some that appear more svelte.
https://gitlab.com/shackra/goimapnotify#readme says it's a Go version of
the undocumented https://github.com/a-sk/python-imapnotify.

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Cheers, Ralph.
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