Thread: Rouncube webmail notifier

RC is a email client, not a server. You can use any notifier that uses your mailserver to determine if there is a new mail (which most notifiers do).

Yes, I'm thinking if there is any like Gmail notifer program which connects through the http protocol and can monitor new emails arriving.

so I think it needs a dedicated roundcube notifer program, the Gmail notifer doesn't work for roundcube web client.

Originally Posted by pgy

so I think it needs a dedicated roundcube notifer program,

Think of RoundCube as a program like Outlook or Thunderbird. Mail arrives at your mailserver not your client. To use a notifier, you will have to check the server not the program.

So you need a notifier which check your IMAP mailserver. Unfortunately, there are no free configurable IMAP notifiers for Firefox yet.

A stand-alone notifier you can use is this one.

... I believe he thinks about a tool which connects to RC by http to use the check-recent request. Not bad, because it would be a bridge to connect to IMAP servers behind RC. Easily done by a simple hta (IE based) app ... sorry, I'm not skilled enough to code a real platform independent application.

Originally Posted by rosali

... I believe he thinks about a tool which connects to RC by http to use the check-recent request. Not bad, because it would be a bridge to connect to IMAP servers behind RC. Easily done by a simple hta (IE based) app ... sorry, I'm not skilled enough to code a real platform independed application.

Well he wants an add-on for Firefox, not a stand-alone notifier.

connecting to IMAP server directly is one option, but sometimes the IMAP server port is not open to outside.

If you check this extension of firefox "Gmail Manager" tLo : Gmail Manager, it check new emails through the http not IMAP, what I need is the same program like the "Gmail Manager" but not check gmail, instead it is to check RoundCube mail.

connecting to IMAP server directly is one option, but sometimes the IMAP server port is not open to outside.

Sounds like the server administrator's don't want you to to be able to do so.

Either way what you're looking for is not specific to Roundcube at all it's simply a FF extension for email notification. You should be looking at FF addons. But if you can't connect using IMAP or POP3 then it's not likely you'll find one anyways.

Sorry to dig up that old thread, but it wasn't answered and I feel like nobody here really understood, what pgy wanted to know.

pgy was asking how to configure the Firefox Webmail Notifier plugin for Roundcubemail.

WebMail Notifier - Notifier for gmail, yahoo, hotmail and more

This is exactly the problem that I have.

What this plugin does, is creating an url, containing the user ID and password and send it to a webmail frontend to check frequently if there are new mails. This is mostly needed, when you are sitting behind a company's firewall where you can only use the HTTP ports.

Firefox Webmail Notifier plugin works with user customized js-scripts, that have to be configured to match the syntax of the webmail-frontend that's installed on the Mail-Server.

Here is an example for Lycos:

Code:

/**********************************************************
Lycos
**********************************************************/
var name="Lycos";
var ver="2009-01-06"

function init(){
  this.hostString="";
  this.dataURL="http://mail.lycos.com/lycos/Welcome.lycos";
  this.loginData=["https://registration.lycos.com/login.php?m_PR=27","m_U","m_P","m_CBURL="+encodeURIComponent("http://mail.lycos.com")];
  this.mailURL="http://mail.lycos.com/lycos/Index.lycos";
}
function getCount(aData){
  var fnd=aData.match(/You have <font.+?>(\d+?)<\/font> new message/);
  if(fnd){
    return fnd[1];
  }else{
    return -1;
  }
}

So, does anyone know how the syntax of the roundcubemail login interface url looks like?

We have to code a plugin for that. Please remember me in a week or so ...

Here is what Squirrelmail does:

PHP Code:

/**********************************************************
SquirrelMail
  * Enable Unread Message Notification in Folder Preferences
**********************************************************/
var name="Squirrel";
var ver="2009-01-13"
var needServer=true;

function init(){
  if(this.server){
    if(this.server.indexOf("http")!=0)this.server="http://"+this.server;
    if(this.server.charAt(this.server.length-1)=="/")this.server=this.server.substring(0,this.server.length-1);
  }else if(this.user.indexOf("@")!=-1)this.server="http://mail."+this.user.split("@")[1];
  this.loginData=[this.server+"/src/redirect.php","login_username", "secretkey",];
  this.dataURL=this.server+"/src/left_main.php";
  this.mailURL=this.server+"/src/webmail.php";
}

function getCount(aData) {
  var fnd=aData.match(/left_main.php?fold=INBOX.+?(?:<small>.*?((d+)(?:/d+)?).*?</small>)?</span>/);
  if(fnd) {
    return fnd[1]?fnd[1]:0;
  }else{
    return -1;
  }
} 


It should be easy to show by a plugin request only the unread count of the Inbox and nothing else.