Simply Check if you Have new Gmails
After setting up mutt; I figured I’d go the extra mile; and add a notification system so that I know when I have some new emails. Well come to find out; it was easy as pie. And I learned a few new little things in the process.
First of all; gmail has a nifty url that serves a feed for your emails:
https://mail.google.com/mail/feed/atom
The feed will tell you about new emails, unread emails, and stuff like that. But what makes the feed so awesome, is that it’ s well labeled, and easy to parse. So for my script I just need to call the url, pass a username and password, and enjoy the output:
Download Script: https://raw.github.com/fsk141/scripts/master/checkgmail
Or view it below:
#!/bin/sh
## Simple Check Gmail ##
## Jonny Gerold ##
# User & Password should look like the following:
## set imap_user = me@domain.tld
## set imap_pass = my_pass
### You can hardset USER & PASS here if you would like; I just
### didn't want my user/pass all over the place in conf files
USER=$(grep 'set imap_user' ~/.mutt/muttrc | awk '{ print $4 }')
PASS=$(grep 'set imap_pass' ~/.mutt/muttrc | awk '{ print $4 }')
# Check mail status...
function check () {
curl -s -u $USER:$PASS https://mail.google.com/mail/feed/atom
}
# Find number of messages unread
function fullcount () {
check | grep '<fullcount>' | sed -e 's/<fullcount>//' -e 's/<\/fullcount>//'
}
# Print result
function print () {
if [[ -n $(fullcount) ]] && [[ $(fullcount) == '1' ]]; then
echo "You have $(fullcount) new email!"
else
echo "You have $(fullcount) new emails!"
fi
}
# notify-send that message!
#notify-send "$(print)"
# output number of new emails
fullcount
# static print 'You have $(fullcount) new email(s)
#print
How to make the script work for you?
- Add it to your crontab
10 * * * * * ~/checkgmail
- If you use statnot; add it to your ~/.statusline
# I have the script set to just output the number of new emails function nEmail () { if [[ $(~/.scripts/checkgmail) > 0 ]]; then echo ">> $(~/.scripts/checkgmail) NEW EMAIL | " fi } # my actual output looks something like this: echo "$(nEmail)$(mpd)V: $volume | B: $(bat) | $datetime"; - Add it to conky
exec ~/checkgmail
It’s almost a direct descendant of