227407 - option to execute external command for biff status

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, enhancement)

Description

[Jochen Eisinger]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031128
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031128

Hi,

I'd like to execute an external command when new mail arrives or when no unread
mail is present. This would make it possible to integrate mozmail in my
windowmanager's biff

something like

mail.biff.notify = true
mail.biff.notify.command = "/usr/bin/biff %state"


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Couldn't find a dupe, so confirming.  (Bug 222838 is close but the reporter 
there was mostly concerned with getting notification sounds working.)

See also bug 80439.

Comment 2

[Jochen Eisinger]

I browsed the source a little and found basically three possibilities to solve this:

o when the BiffState of the mini-mail DOM object is changed, an external program
could be invoked
o something similar to the OS integration for MacOS or Win (maybe as generic
integrator)
o maybe it's possible to trigger a javascript when the biff state changes

any suggestions on this?

Comment 3

[Jochen Eisinger]

Attachment: first version with hard-wired command to execute

ok, that's what I got so far. Quite generic and works for me.

The command that is executed is hard-wired so far, I'll make this configurable
and submit it to mozdev.org then.

Comment 4

[Jochen Eisinger]

Attachment: invoke external biff

ok, works for me now. the xul application gives you a new pref tab under
"advanced prefs -> biff" where you can define an external command to invoke
when the biff status changes. the string %s is replaced with on or off.

Comment 5

[Jochen Eisinger]

implemented the feature myself, so I'll drop this feature request

Comment 6

[Jason Bassford]

Nothing was checked into Mozilla - so "fixed" is the wrong resolution.

Comment 7

[Jason Bassford]

->WORKSFORME

Comment 8

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

*** Bug 222838 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 9

[Jochen Eisinger]

I've modified the xpi meanwhile. the current version is available from my
homepage http://penguin-breeder.org/patches/download/biff.xpi