[Users] Need help, moving from kmail-1.13.5 to claws-mail

[Holger Berndt]

On Sa, 22.02.2014 22:05, Gene Heskett wrote:

>A session of 
>inotifywatch being run by a looping script then arranges to send kmail a go 
>get the mail commend over the dbus everytime a $user file is closed in 
>/var/spool/mail.  This has been working extremely well for several years 
>and linux installs, but claws-mail will need to be notified by some other 
>means to go get and sort the mail.

You can trigger Claws-Mail to receive mail with the --receive and
--receive-all command line switches.

>How would one go about doing that from this looping script since claws-mail 
>doesn't have a dbus port?

One of the examples of the python plugin is to add a simple dbus
interface, which would also allow you to trigger mail receiving
externally

dbus-send --session --type=method_call --dest=org.ClawsMail.PythonPlugin /org/ClawsMail/PythonPlugin org.ClawsMail.PythonPlugin.MainWindow.TriggerGtkAction string:'Message/Receive/AllAccounts'

But if you just want to trigger receiving, the command line switch is
easier, and has the additional benefit of starting Claws Mail if it's not
yet running.

Holger