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Date: Sun, 01 May 2022 15:07:23 +0200
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From: "Moritz Poldrack" <moritz@poldrack.dev>
To: "Areotwister" <areotwister@gmail.com>,
 <~rjarry/aerc-discuss@lists.sr.ht>
Subject: Re: new-email setting not working with example
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In-Reply-To: <CJOG1LC2HZQA.2AD0VLH0GVLAY@ArchPC>

On Sun May 1, 2022 at 3:02 PM CEST, Areotwister wrote:
> - I just tried out the new-email setting with the example from the
> manual: `new-email=3Dexec notify-send "New email from %n" "%s"`, but no
> message showed up in https://github.com/dunst-project/dunst. But the
> command `notify-send "New email from %n" "%s"` executed  from the
> commandline works. The folder that received the email within aerc, was
> selected.

I had to prefix it with an exec for it to work, but my setup might be
considered odd.

> - I tried if the `new-message-bell=3Dtrue/false` affects it somehow, but
> it didn't.

It does not.

> - But a interesting detail is, that there was no bell sound to hear,
> neither with `new-message-bell=3Dtrue` nor `new-message-bell=3Dfalse`. Bu=
t
> there was a signal recieved from the workspace in i3 that something
> happened.

Bell means the terminal bell \a

> - The reason could propably be that Gmail isn't writing the \Recent
> flag as Robin mentioned in one of his answers:
> https://lists.sr.ht/~rjarry/aerc-devel/<fcd88f4e-cad1-4b99-801b-fb3c790c5=
647%40www.fastmail.com>#<CHXOH8OVR7LC.2RI1NALZT2PX3@diabtop>

Might very well be=E2=80=A6 Gmail seems to have some trouble with this
"following established standards"-thing

> - It would be nice to maybe have a trigger not dependand on this flag,
> but that just triggers if a message is received, because it's a rly
> usefull feature to just zap through the messages in dunst to get the
> info if new emails were received

I'm afraid I don't quite understand what you mean. Could you elaborate?

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Moritz Poldrack
https://moritz.sh