inotifywait -m -e close --format %f

[Kevin Krammer]

On Monday, 2011-01-17, gene heskett wrote:
> Greetings;
> 
> Is there a way I can mate an output from the above command line, watching
> /var/spool/mail, to trigger a 'check mail' function in the recent kmail?
> 
> This is a case of not needing the text output, but just the occurrence of
> the output, used as an interrupt to kmail.  This would synchronize kmail
> with the activities of fetchmail and procmail/SA so I see incoming mail
> several minutes quicker.

You could execute the checkMail action (check all accounts for new mail) via 
D-Bus:

qdbus org.kde.kmail /KMail org.kde.kmail.kmail.checkMail

There is also a checkAccount action for checking only one account, but I 
didn't have time to look into that yet.

Cheers,
Kevin
-- 
Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring
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