Re: KMail: MBox account via sftp -- supposed to work?
On Wednesday, 2014-03-05, 20:25:30, Michael Schuerig wrote: On Wednesday 05 March 2014 19:29:27 Kevin Krammer wrote: On Wednesday, 2014-03-05, 19:15:50, Michael Schuerig wrote: I'm looking for a way to monitor local mail notifications on my home server, ie the stuff cron jobs and daemons send to root and are forwarded to my user account there. I'm much in favor of a lightweight solution and I've stumbled upon the approach to create a KMail Mbox account via sftp: sftp://michael@my-server:22/var/mail/michael This only sort of works. KMail (or the Akonadi resource behind it) read the mbox's content once, but doesn't appear to update it when new messages arrive. There is no change notification over SFTP so you need to configure an interval check. Right click the folder, properties, retrieval (third tab, might be called differently, translated back from German localisation which calls it Abruf). I'm using the English locale :-) Unfortunately, setting the sync interval doesn't seem to have an effect. Neither does manually checking mail for the account or updating the folder. I only get new messages when I restart the corresponding agent in Akonadi Console. I can also trigger a sync by switching the Read-Only only option. Hmm. I've looked into the code and it seems that the reload call is missing from anywhere but the configuration change handling. Curiously, the ICAL resource, which shares the same base code, does reload on folder refresh. Even more curiously, the vCard resource, which also shares the same base code, is also missing the reload for refresh call. No idea how that differences emerged, my guesses are * someone working on the ICAL resource changes base code and only changes the ICAL resource, e.g. because they wanted to test it first and then forgot about changing the others * the re-downloading causes problems, was temporarily removed until a better solution was found and got only reactivated in the ICAL resource, possibly for similar as above. Either way, that should probably be filed as a bug report (there could already be one). Cheers, Kevin signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: KMail: MBox account via sftp -- supposed to work?
On Friday 07 March 2014 09:49:06 Kevin Krammer wrote: Either way, that should probably be filed as a bug report (there could already be one). https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=331845 Thanks for looking into it. Michael -- Michael Schuerig mailto:mich...@schuerig.de http://www.schuerig.de/michael/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/21792240.RtjXXo0qos@fuchsia
Re: KMail: MBox account via sftp -- supposed to work?
On Wednesday, 2014-03-05, 19:15:50, Michael Schuerig wrote: I'm looking for a way to monitor local mail notifications on my home server, ie the stuff cron jobs and daemons send to root and are forwarded to my user account there. I'm much in favor of a lightweight solution and I've stumbled upon the approach to create a KMail Mbox account via sftp: sftp://michael@my-server:22/var/mail/michael This only sort of works. KMail (or the Akonadi resource behind it) read the mbox's content once, but doesn't appear to update it when new messages arrive. There is no change notification over SFTP so you need to configure an interval check. Right click the folder, properties, retrieval (third tab, might be called differently, translated back from German localisation which calls it Abruf). I was only half expecting this to work and therefore am not overly surprised. Nevertheless, I'm wondering if this is *supposed* to work. Yes, but I am not sure how well this is tested :-/ Cheers, Kevin signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: KMail: MBox account via sftp -- supposed to work?
On Wednesday 05 March 2014 19:29:27 Kevin Krammer wrote: On Wednesday, 2014-03-05, 19:15:50, Michael Schuerig wrote: I'm looking for a way to monitor local mail notifications on my home server, ie the stuff cron jobs and daemons send to root and are forwarded to my user account there. I'm much in favor of a lightweight solution and I've stumbled upon the approach to create a KMail Mbox account via sftp: sftp://michael@my-server:22/var/mail/michael This only sort of works. KMail (or the Akonadi resource behind it) read the mbox's content once, but doesn't appear to update it when new messages arrive. There is no change notification over SFTP so you need to configure an interval check. Right click the folder, properties, retrieval (third tab, might be called differently, translated back from German localisation which calls it Abruf). I'm using the English locale :-) Unfortunately, setting the sync interval doesn't seem to have an effect. Neither does manually checking mail for the account or updating the folder. I only get new messages when I restart the corresponding agent in Akonadi Console. I can also trigger a sync by switching the Read-Only only option. Incidentally, when switching read-only off, I get this curious notification: Resource My-Server is broken. This resource is now online (I'm also regularly getting that message for my local MBox account, which otherwise works without a problem.) Versions: KMail 4.11.5, Akonadi 1.11.0-1 Thanks for your comments. Michael -- Michael Schuerig mailto:mich...@schuerig.de http://www.schuerig.de/michael/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
