On Wednesday, November 30, 2011 12:52:24 AM Duncan did opine: > gene heskett posted on Tue, 29 Nov 2011 23:01:23 -0500 as excerpted: > > I may have hit what is almost a show-stopper with claws. There > > appears, from the .pdf of the docs I found, no way to have another > > script send it a check mail command. And while I did find an > > auto-check option in the preferences menu, it doesn't read as doing > > what I need it to do, or the docs maybe are a bit old? kmail from > > 4.6.5, even from the 3.5.0+, has had a dbus socket that works very > > well indeed using this line from my ~/bin/mailwatcher script: > > Cmd define (word wrapped): > > Cmd="/usr/lib/qt4/bin/qdbus org.kde.kmail /KMail > > org.kde.kmail.kmail.checkMail" > > > > Invocation later in the script after having verified that kmail is > > indeed running and there is new mail in /var/spool/mail/gene: > > $cmd > > > > Is this dbus port indeed on the missing list? > > I'm not aware of a dbus command for it -- that doesn't mean it doesn't > exist, I just never looked for it, but there's definitely a scripted > solution possible, as claws, like many mh-format mail clients, is > designed with exactly that sort of scripted extensibility in mind. > > There's one way that I know for sure of, because I used it after I ran > the import script as described in an earlier post. But that's not ideal > for this particular situation, which as I said I've never looked into, > so I'd rather go looking and give you a better answer later, than to > give you this suboptimal solution now. > > But as I said, I know it's possible, both because claws was designed for > precisely this sort of extensibility and because I happen to know an > indirect way of doing it already, based on what I have done. Thanks Duncan, now I have something to look forward to. Cheers, Gene -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) My web page: <http://coyoteden.dyndns-free.com:85/gene> Beauty? What's that? -- Larry Wall in <199710221937.MAA25131@xxxxxxxx> ___________________________________________________ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.