Re: [Evolution] Evolution, IMAP, and gkrellm

[Joseph Monti <joe tgpr org>]

Thanks You! It works Great.

- Joe

On Mon, 2003-01-06 at 11:46, Brett Johnson wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-01-05 at 17:57, Joseph Monti wrote:
>
> > I have tried accessing the account remotely but the IMAP server requires
> > SSL, which I couldn't get working with gkrellm.
>
> I had the same problem (I didn't want to send my password over the
> network in clear text either ;o).  Here's what I did to get gkrellm to
> check IMAP stores using SSL:
>
> Thankfully, gkrellm has the ability to call an arbitrary script to check
> mail, and fetchmail can talk to an IMAP server over SSL.  So, I filled
> in the "Mail fetch/check program" field in gkrellm config with:
>
>         fetchmail -c -f ~/.gkrellm/.fetchmailrc
>
> Then I created the "~/.gkrellm/.fetchmailrc file using the following
> syntax (you need to fill in the entries inside <>):
>
>         poll <IMAP server> with proto IMAP
>                 user <your imap username>
>                 password "<your imap password>"
>                 ssl
>
> If you have multiple IMAP servers you'd like to check, you can just add
> another stanza (similar to the one above) for each server.  Gkrellm will
> report a cumulative number of new/read mails, and it will also give you
> a popup that breaks down how many new mails are on each server.
>
> Cheers!
> -- 
> Brett Johnson <brett hp com>
>    -  i  n  v  e  n  t  -
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