8 Jul
2018
8 Jul
'18
7:56 a.m.
On Sunday 08 July 2018 02:55:33 J Leslie Turriff wrote:
On 2018-07-08 01:39:53 Michele Calgaro wrote:
I believe the idea is to have mailwatcher running whether or not one
is logged in, so that the mail is delivered as e.g. USPS requires.*
Leslie
Not really. It has to run as me, the only carbon-based lifeform that
accesses this computer, and once booted, I rarely log out for weeks at a
time.
Running as me, also leads to all sorts of logging permission problems
in /var/log, so I finally gave up and moved all those log files into
~/log, redirecting logrotate to do its thing there. I did that about 4
years ago and haven't had to putz with it since.
fetchmail feeds procmail, who proceeds to check incoming for viri and
spam, and sends several phony illegits to /dev/null, the spam gets
graded by spamassassin but still comes into kmail by being placed
in /var/mail/me. procmail can also generate other names depending on who
its from. Where mailwatcher comes into play is it launches an instance
of inotifywait to watch /var/mail, returning the name of the file that
the mail was written to when its closed. That triggers a dbus msg to
kmail to go get the mail, and it relaunches another instance of
inotifywait to replace the one that died returning the filename.
All this, when working, reduces my work to handle incoming mail to
hitting the + key to goto the next unread msg, if I can reply, I select
the reply style, type my answer as I'm doing now, and a ctrl+return
sends it. Everything else is done by the computer and these scripts
with zero intervention by me. I mean, computers are supposed to do as
we wish, right? Makes perfect sense to me. :)
Now, if I just had a good idea where to put the launching command so it
was started by my logging in, the only other thing would be to assure
that kmail is running on workspace 10. Sometimes it autostarts, but only
sometimes.
--
Cheers Leslie, Gene Heskett
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Yes, and
because in my excitement over its working, I neglected to
start ~/bin/mailwatcher after the reboot, which starts fetchmail
for me, and links the incoming email directly into kmail, I did
not get the first thank you message back, and just now sent
another when I saw there had been no incoming while I was taking a
morning nap. Fixed, 31 fetched when fetchmail was launched.
Why don't you set it to start automatically when you log into TDE?
So you won't forget again.