On Thursday 09 June 2016 13:23:42 Slávek Banko wrote:

On Thursday 09 of June 2016 19:01:17 Gene Heskett wrote:

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Greetings to the tde-r14.0.4 kmail experts;

One of the things that is rather glaringly not addressed in the docs on kmail that are easily read from a click on the help pulldown, is any info on how to control kmails functioning via dbus commands.

I've been using dbus to send it a get new mail cmd for years, using a command line someone gave me:

/usr/bin/qdbus org.kde.kmail /KMail org.kde.kmail.kmail.checkMail

but since my sa-learn scripts also reach into kmail's database and move files once sa-learn (-ham or -spam) has done its thing, it would be easier on kmails sanity if I could send it a rebuild index command on the two directory's mucked with.

man qdbus looks helpfull, but says that org.kde.kmail does not exist when I attempt to query it using the above command or variations of it.  I would assume that

$>/usr/bin/qdbus org.kde.kmail /KMail

would return a whats available list, but doesn't. All I can get is: gene@coyote:~$ qdbus  -service org.kde.kmail /KMail Service 'org.kde.kmail' does not exist. gene@coyote:~$ qdbus  org.kde.kmail /KMail Service 'org.kde.kmail' does not exist. gene@coyote:~$ qdbus  org.kde.kmail Service 'org.kde.kmail' does not exist.

And yet the first sample command above works and has been working since dcop was deprecated somewhere back up the timeline quite a few years ago.

Is there such a doc someplace?  Or am I  miss-reading the qdbus man page. A simple qdbus[enter] returns only this: gene@coyote:~$ qdbus

:1.0

org.kde.kcalc-6112

:1.1

org.xfce.Terminal4

:1.2 :1.3

org.gtk.vfs.Daemon

:1.4 :1.6

org.freedesktop.DBus

And yet a command sent to org.kde.kmail works a treat.  So how is that command getting there, because it works, and has been working for years.

Me goes off to Wallies to get some scripts that keep me tuned up as well as can be expected considering the accumulated mileage.

Cheers, Gene Heskett

DCOP is indeed deprecated, but KDE4 and later. For TDE is DCOP still right way! For example:

dcop kmail KMailIface checkMail

You can use kdcop to explore the possibilities.

I went back and checked my script as it can do either, and it was using dcop, with a very similar command to the sample you supplied above, and after a reboot, it Just Worked(TM). And the job I had sent to the printer, not realizing cups couldn't find it, started up and has been done before I even get the rest of the screens placed on the proper workspaces & running the stuff they usually do. So now I'm a happy camper again, and about to trade this coffee cup in on a near beer. But first go see what my woof wants for din-din, its about that time.

Now, I think I figured out what happened. If kmail is not on the other end of the circuit, the pipeline fill up and becomes non-functional. And I didn't start kmail right away after the tde-trinity restart. Plugged up the pipe IOW.

So the trick is to smarten up my script so it only sends the command of kmail is available. That shouldn't be too hard.

Cheers, Gene Heskett