Introduction

Using mutt (or pine), but annoyed that it doesn't give you any notifications when you've received new emails? hasmail is a simple tray application that detects new emails on IMAP servers using IDLE (push rather than pull). When it detects unseen messages, it shows a OSD style notification and changes the tray icon to indicate that you have new mail.

When hovering the mouse over the tray icon, hasmail shows which of the configured accounts have unseen messages. Clicking the icon executes a user-defined command.

Configuration

hasmail looks for ~/.hasmailrc and expects a file in simple INI syntax. The configuration file consists of (currently) one global option and one or more accounts, each with multiple fields.

Global fields

• click: this command will be executed when clicking the tray icon

Account fields

The value in [] can be anything, and will be what is shown in the tooltip. The options for an account are as follows:

• hostname: The address (+ port) to connect to. MUST currently be SSL/TLS enabled. Required.
• username: Username for authentication. Required.
• password: Command to execute to get password for authentication. Required.
• click: An optional command to execute when clicking the tray icon if this, and only this, account has new messages. If this option is present, it overrides the global click option in the described scenario.
• folder: What folder to check for new messages. INBOX is the default.
• poll: How often (in minutes) to force a recheck of the account. By default it is set to 29 (as suggested in the spec) to avoid the server disconnecting us due to inactivity.

Installation

Assuming you've checked this out into $GOPATH/src/hasmail, just run go install hasmail. If your path is set up correctly, you should be able to run hasmail and get the message "Failed to load configuration file, exiting...". Create your config and you're ready!

If you're lucky enough to be running Arch Linux, you can just install the package from the AUR or run makepkg in pkg/.

Major dependencies

• https://github.com/mattn/go-gtk/
• http://code.google.com/p/go-imap/
• https://github.com/dlintw/goconf/

License

Use this code for whatever you want if you find it useful. You don't need to put any attribution (even though I'd be happy if you did), but please let me know if you use it for anything interesting!