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Smart mail checking alarmd script

Smart mail checking alarmd script

This is a fairly simple script that will sync your email. It can be set to run hourly etc. with crom/alarmd etc.

The thng that makes this script special is that it will put your wifi back to the way it is when it is run.

For example there are 3 possibilities. 1. wifi is already connected, 2 wifi kernel modules loaded, kernel modules not loaded. This script will detect one of the three possibilities, take appropriate action (load modules, connect etc) then return your wifi back to it's original setting (unloaded, not connect, connected).

It can be run with:

Code:

echo "/path/to/script.sh" | sudo gainroot | echo ""

and the script:

Code:

#!/bin/sh

#smart email check script

out=`ifconfig wlan0`

if [ $? -eq "0" ] ; then

        if [ `echo "$out" | grep -c RUNNING` -gt "0" ] ; then

                echo "wifi connected, checking mail"

                run-standalone.sh dbus-send --type=method_call --dest=com.nokia.modest /com/nokia/modest com.nokia.modest.SendReceive



        else

                echo "wifi disconnected, connecting..."

                sleep 2

                run-standalone.sh dbus-send --system --type=method_call --dest=com.nokia.icd /com/nokia/icd com.nokia.icd.connect string:"[ANY]" uint32:0

                sleep 15

                run-standalone.sh dbus-send --type=method_call --dest=com.nokia.modest /com/nokia/modest com.nokia.modest.SendReceive

                echo "checking mail"

                sleep 55

                dbus-send --system --dest=com.nokia.icd /com/nokia/icd_ui com.nokia.icd_ui.disconnect boolean:true | echo ""

        fi        

        exit 2



        else

                echo "wifi modules unloaded, bringing up"

                modprobe wl12xx

                wl1251-cal

                stop wlancond

                start wlancond

                ifconfig wlan0 up



                sleep 1

                dbus-send --system --type=method_call --dest=com.nokia.icd /com/nokia/icd com.nokia.icd.connect string:"[ANY]" uint32:0 | echo ""

                sleep 7

                run-standalone.sh dbus-send --type=method_call --dest=com.nokia.modest /com/nokia/modest com.nokia.modest.SendReceive

                echo "checking email"

                sleep 35

                ifconfig wlan0 down

                rmmod wl12xx



        exit 0

fi

unfortunatley you need to have modest 'autoupdate' enabled for it to respond to the syncemail dbus call (which totally sucks btw). I have simply editited the modest.conf autocheck time value to 999999.

Seems to work!

Re: Smart mail checking alarmd script

Hello,

can you please advice where can i locate the modest.conf file?
I was able to find one modest.conf file under

Quote:

etc/osso-backup/applications/modest.conf

the content of the file looks like this:

Quote:

<backup-configuration>
<locations>
<location type="file" category="comm_and_cal" auto="true">$HOME/.modest-backup.tar.gz</location>
<location type="dir" category="comm_and_cal" auto="true">/var/lib/gconf/apps/modest</location>
</locations>
</backup-configuration>

I'm not sure how i should define the "autoupdate" value. Please help me locate the correct modest.conf file. :)

Thank you
-Michal.

Re: Smart mail checking alarmd script

modest config is stored in that POS gconf:

Code:

gconftool-2 -R /apps/modest | less

Re: Smart mail checking alarmd script

thanks a lot kureyon,

just in case, here is what i did, with my comments; as i used gconftool-2 for the first time:
i've checked the update_interval value

Quote:

>gconftool-2 -g /apps/modest/update_interval
1440

i found what kind of type this one is (probably obvious to most of you guys):

Quote:

gconftool-2 -T /apps/modest/update_interval
int

so i've set it to 999999

Quote:

>gconftool-2 -s /apps/modest/update_interval --type int 999999

and ...double checked

Quote:

>gconftool-2 -g /apps/modest/update_interval
999999

again, thanks for giving me a heads up on this.

modest is now responsive to the dbus calls, as adviced

-M.

Re: Smart mail checking alarmd script

Quote:

Originally Posted by vi_ (Post 916084)

Ah, now I know why my own scripts have never worked! Thanks! :)

Re: Smart mail checking alarmd script

is this anything close to imap idle? can you set it to check every minute or would it tax the n900 too much?

Re: Smart mail checking alarmd script

You could set it to check every minute however Modest is such ball smoking crap you would probably be issuing multiple email syncs at once.