Offlineimap "New Email" notification scripts

Question

I recently started using offlineimap/mutt to keep track of three email accounts. I wanted notifications when new email arrived so I tried some notification programs that worked with Maildir but didn't find any that I liked. So I came up with this script:
#!/bin/sh
MAILDIR1=$HOME/Email/maildir1/INBOX/new
MAILDIR2=$HOME/Email/maildir2/INBOX/new
MAILDIR3=$HOME/Email/maildir3/Inbox/new
echo "Watching $MAILDIR1"
while MAILNAME1=$(inotifywait -qe MOVED_TO --format '%f' $MAILDIR1)
do
echo $MAILNAME1
mailpop $MAILDIR1/$MAILNAME1
done&
echo "Watching $MAILDIR2"
while MAILNAME2=$(inotifywait -qe MOVED_TO --format '%f' $MAILDIR2)
do
echo $MAILNAME2
mailpop $MAILDIR2/$MAILNAME2
done&
echo "Watching $MAILDIR3"
while MAILNAME3=$(inotifywait -qe MOVED_TO --format '%f' $MAILDIR3)
do
echo $MAILNAME3
mailpop $MAILDIR3/$MAILNAME3
done
I modified a script for procmail notifications I found here http://miek.nl/posts/2008/Jun/09/a-popu … rocmailrc/ for nicely formatted notifications and added two lines to speak the notification as well.
mailpop
#!/bin/bash
# popup a small notification with 'notify-send'
from=`formail -X From: < $1`
sub=`formail -X Subject: < $1`
# tweaks < > are special
from=${from//</\(}
from=${from//>/\)}
from=${from//&/\.}
sub=${sub//</\(}
sub=${sub//>/\)}
sub=${sub//&/\.}
sub=${sub:0:200}
from=${from:0:75}
TM=2000
/usr/bin/notify-send -u normal -t $TM "$from" "$sub"
while pgrep speech2 > /dev/null; do sleep 1; done
speech2 New Email ${from%(*}, With $sub, has arrived
#echo "New Email $from, With $sub has arrived" | festival --tts
At first I used festival for speech, but Google's voice sounded so much better. This script will speak up to 100 characters, just requires mplayer:
speech2
#!/bin/bash
say() { local IFS=+;/usr/bin/mplayer -ao alsa -really-quiet -noconsolecontrols "http://translate.google.com/translate_tts?tl=en&q=$*"; }
say $*
For messages with longer subjects: http://danfountain.com/2013/03/raspberr … to-speech/
Anyone else have a script/program they like for maildir notifications? Also I would be interested in making these work as a systemd user service.

Answer 1

For any other i3 users, jasonwryan script works great with i3status and i3bar useing the example from i3status manual:
i3status | while :
do
read line
echo "Email: $(eml) | $line" || exit 1
done
Edit: This is better, works with colors:
i3status | (read line && echo $line && read line && echo $line && while :
do
read line
dat=$(eml)
dat="[{ \"full_text\": \"Email: ${dat}\" },"
echo "${line/[/$dat}" || exit 1
done)
Last edited by kristopher004 (2015-03-01 18:19:00)