https://github.com/eikendev/tbunread

Helps you to keep an eye on unread emails in Thunderbird 📬:fire:
https://github.com/eikendev/tbunread

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Helps you to keep an eye on unread emails in Thunderbird 📬:fire:

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/eikendev/tbunread
• Owner: eikendev
• License: isc
• Created: 2021-05-25T21:02:02.000Z (over 3 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2023-02-11T18:49:27.000Z (over 1 year ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-30T12:48:34.692Z (12 days ago)
• Topics: thunderbird, unread-emails, unread-mails, unread-messages
• Language: Rust
• Homepage: https://crates.io/crates/tbunread
• Size: 69.3 KB
• Stars: 4
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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## About

This script outputs how many emails are unread in each account of Thunderbird.

It will automatically detect your default Thunderbird profile.

## Usage

```

$ tbunread --output /where/you/need/the/output

[...] Watching /path/to/my/.thunderbird/some.profile/ImapMail/tbunread

6 1 1 2

5 1 1 2

5 1 2 2

```

To use the script you have to provide it with the email accounts you want to query.

This is done by creating symbolic links in a `tbunread` directory inside the `ImapMail` directory of Thunderbird.

The symbolic links point to one of the IMAP directories (POP3 is not supported).

By naming the links in the alphabetical order of your choice you can also choose the order of the output.

Here is an example of how it might look inside a `tbunread` directory:

```

$ pwd

/path/to/my/.thunderbird/some.profile/ImapMail/tbunread

$ ls -lA

lrwxrwxrwx. (...) 01 -> ../mail.example1.com

lrwxrwxrwx. (...) 02 -> ../mail.example2.com

lrwxrwxrwx. (...) 03 -> ../mail.example3.com

```

## Installation

### From crates.io

```bash

cargo install tbunread

```

## Recommended Setup

I recommend using [systemd](https://systemd.io/) to run the script.

See below for an example on how the service file should look like.

```ini

[Unit]

Description=tbunread

[Service]

Type=simple

ExecStart=tbunread --output /where/you/need/the/output

Restart=on-success

RestartSec=5s

[Install]

WantedBy=default.target

```