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Can I use the number of new emails in a script?

Asked by Santiago Ward

Hi!
I've been trying to write a small bash script that would add the number of new emails on Thunderbird's icon in my Cairo-Dock with Popper's "on new emails" event. Is there a way to get that number into my script?
Thanks!

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desmane (spmbx) said : 		#1

When a script for the event 'Click on summary entry' occurs, two arguments
will be passed to script: 'account name, number of emails'.

Unfortunately no arguments for "on new mails" though... Maybe in next update?

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Santiago Ward (santiagoward2000) said : 		#2

Oh, that's too bad. Anyway, thanks you!

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Santiago Ward (santiagoward2000) said : 		#3

In case anyone else is interested, I managed to hack a small script that does this by checking the popper.dat file. It goes like this:

wc -l /home/santi/.popper/popper.dat | cut --delimiter=' ' -f 1

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Ralf Hersel (ralf.hersel) said : 		#4

I will add this to the wish list of version 0.30 which will be available in autumn (after Oneiric is released).

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Ralf Hersel (ralf.hersel) said : 		#5

In version 0.30 I will pass the maximum of possible parameters to the shell scripts (for all 4 events).