mongars 0.7.1

Show unread emails in INBOX using Gnome Online Accounts

mongars - count inbox emails

count inbox emails using Gnome Online Accounts

Description

mongars will take an email account as configured in Gnome Online account (only oauth based email account is supported) and will output how many unread emails you have in there.

You just need to specify the email to check as an argument i.e:

mongars [e-mail]

By default it will output the number of messages from your mailbox with an icon of different colours if there is unreads message or not.

The INBOX folder is the default folder, if you would like to count another folder you can specify the -m option to it :

mongars -m Label1 [e-mail]

You can further customize the colour output which uses lemonbar formatting with :

• --icon: the glyph icon default to 
• --icon-color-unreads: the color when unreads, default to a yellow #ffd700 set this to empty if you don't want any color formatting.
• --icon-color-normal: the normal colors. (no default)

By default if you have no mail it will output a 0 unless you specify the flag --no-mail-no-zero

If you don't want any icons you can simply use the --no-icon and it will just output the number.

This currently only support oauth2 based accounts, imap account with username, password are not currently supported (patch welcome but you probably want to use something more secure).

I only tested it with Google/Gmail accounts (enteprise and personal) so let me know if it works or not on other oauth2 based email accounts.

Install

Arch

You can install this from aur with your aurhelper, like yay :

yay -S mongars

pip

With pip from pypip - https://pypi.org/project/mongars/

pip install --user mongars

(make sure $HOME/.local/bin is in your PATH)

Manual

Checkout this repository, install poetry and run it with :

poetry install mongars
poetry run mongars

Running it without Gnome

If you run this outside of gnome environement (ie: from a windows manager), you have to configure the accounts first in Gnone Online Account settings from gnome and then you can use it from your windows manager.

From your window manager start scripts or somewhere else you need to make sure to run the goa-daemon, for example on arch the path is /usr/lib/goa-daemon and from your startup script you will do :

/usr/lib/goa-daemon --replace &

different distros may have a different path, see also this bugzilla bug #1340203)

Polybar

You can easily integrate this with Polybar :

[module/email]
type = custom/script
exec = mongars [e-mail]
interval = 30
click-left = xdg-open https://mail.google.com/
exec-if = grep -q [e-mail] ~/.config/goa-1.0/accounts.conf 2>/dev/null && ping -c1 mail.google.com

Waybar

    "custom/email": {
        "format": "﫮 {} ",
        "interval": 15,
        "exec": "mongars [e-mail] --no-mail-no-zero --no-icon",
        "on-click": "xdg-open https://mail.google.com"
    },

and you can style it in style.css file :

#custom-email {
	color: #b22222;
}

License

Apache 2.0

Authors

© 2021 Chmouel Boudjnah (@chmouel) - https://chmouel.com