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I am on tmux, with mutt in an inactive window. If IMAP flags change on a message through external means, I see the visual bell and the status bar changes, drawing my attention to the e-mail client. That works well.

What I would like to do but still can't get to work is:

  • Get a proper notification about incoming e-mail whilst in another tmux window
  • Never get notifications later than 5 minutes from their arrival, possibly fine-tuning this interval

I use Gmail over IMAPS.

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You could call a small script from your tmux status bar that updates with any new mail:

#!/bin/bash # Set maildirs maildirs="$HOME/Mail/*/INBOX/new/" find $maildirs -type f | wc -l

And in your .tmux.conf:

set -g status-right "#[fg=yellow,bright]Mail: #(tmuxmail) ..."

This count will be updated according to the status-interval value, eg.,: set -g status-interval 1

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  • I am accepting even if this is for local mail, not for Gmail over IMAPS... Commented Oct 16, 2012 at 5:53
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You may look at tmux-powerline If you don't like to solarize your tmux colorscheme as I do, you may look at mailcheck that tmux-powerline use to check email.

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