From 84da08d7b7fcda12c85caeb5a10b4903770a6f69 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: toma Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:56:58 +0000 Subject: Copy the KDE 3.5 branch to branches/trinity for new KDE 3.5 features. BUG:215923 git-svn-id: svn://anonsvn.kde.org/home/kde/branches/trinity/kdeaddons@1054174 283d02a7-25f6-0310-bc7c-ecb5cbfe19da --- knewsticker-scripts/README.kataribe | 44 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 44 insertions(+) create mode 100644 knewsticker-scripts/README.kataribe (limited to 'knewsticker-scripts/README.kataribe') diff --git a/knewsticker-scripts/README.kataribe b/knewsticker-scripts/README.kataribe new file mode 100644 index 0000000..eb3a281 --- /dev/null +++ b/knewsticker-scripts/README.kataribe @@ -0,0 +1,44 @@ +Kataribe Readme + +Kataribe is a more or less simple script to turn your Mbox into an RSS file, +so that you may display the subject and from in your Knewsticker. This +script uses a set of Perl modules to access the mail box. The standard mail +box format which I assume is the classic UNIX Mbox format. The script is +rather flexible though and if you wish to adjust the script to fit your +mailbox's needs, please be my guest. You can find a list of classes, which +are supported by the module here: +http://search.cpan.org/search?mode=module&query=Mail%3A%3ABox + +The following list of modules must be installed in order for this script to +work: + +Data::Dumper; +Date::Format; +Mail::Box; +Mail::Box::Manager; +MIME::Words + +Make sure, that you set the $limit variable in the top section of the +script. Parsing a Mbox file is not highly efficient and parsing a huge Mbox +file over and over can be very time consuming. This might cause the script +to time out and not report any data back to KNewsticker. By default only the +_newest_ ten messages are read and displayed as RSS. + +This script tries to be smart about the From header, yet might not always +guess right. The script assumes to find a from in the form of: + +A name + +It will try to display the A name part in Knewsticker along with the subject +of the mail messages. If the script cannot find a name, it will try to use +the email address instead. + +I realize, that there are still several issues, which could be adressed and +the script surely is not 100% feature complete, but it is operational for +those, who wish to have a quick overview about the new mail, which might +have been dumped into their local account using fetchmail or any other +delivering service. + +This IS a work in progress, it has been tested by the author but not by any +other, so please make sure to do so and report back to bio@gmx.de. Thank +you. -- cgit v1.2.1