imap_blinker blinks out unread messages counts for multiple email accounts in different colours, using a blink(1)!
- Ruby 1.9
blink1-tool. Grab it from github.- A config file (see below)
Simply run: imap_blinker from the command line, or a cronjob or whatever.
You'll need a YMAL config file in you home directory, it should be called .imap_blinker.rc.
Mine looks something like:
work:
server: mail.mywork.com
port: 993
ssl: true
verify: false
mailbox: INBOX
username: my_work_username
password: my_secret_password
colour: '255,0,0'
enabled: true
gmail:
server: imap.gmail.com
port: 993
ssl: true
mailbox: INBOX
username: matt.p.foster@gmail.com
password: my_application_specific_password
colour: '0,255,0'
enabled: true
server, mailbox, username, password and enabled are required, and the other parameters are optional.
In order to keep things fairly simple, I designed the config to allow specifying most IMAP parameters but only the colours used by the blink(1)
There's currently very little in the way of error checking. If you need to debug anything, set the BLINK_DEBUG environment variable, which will cause IMAP debugging to be enabled, and unstopper blink1-tool's stdout and stderr streams. e.g.:
BLINK_DEBUG=yes ./imap_blinker.rb