Conky SSL Email Python Script

[kaivalagi]

Looks like yahoo are doing things a little differently with their headers which is the reason for all the initial receive date parsing errors, but that wont break things it just means the script can't ensure things are shown in the right order...

The main issue here seems to be the timeout errors you are getting regardless of ssl or non ssl connections...for those try increasing the connection timeout value, currently set to 15 seconds...

[KenJean]

I was hoping someone else was having this problem because I can never be sure I'm not at fault.

The conkyEmail script works great in a variety of distros - I've gotten it to work from Jaunty through to Maverick, plus Debian Squeeze and even Puppy. However, I am having trouble with my IMAP account in Natty derivatives. I get the following error:

ERROR: getIMAPEmailData:Unexpected error:Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/share/conkyemail/conkyEmail.py", line 445, in getIMAPEmailData
imap.shutdown()
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/imaplib.py", line 252, in shutdown
self.sock.shutdown(socket.SHUT_RDWR)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/socket.py", line 224, in meth
return getattr(self._sock,name)(*args)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/socket.py", line 170, in _dummy
raise error(EBADF, 'Bad file descriptor')
error: [Errno 9] Bad file descriptor

Wondering if there is a fix for this.

As I said, this same conky setup works perfectly in the other distros, but I get the above problem in Natty, Pinguy Natty, Mint 11, lubuntu, etc. - all the Natty based distros.

Gmail and POP3 work fine, however.

-KJ

Figured it out:
Edit the file /usr/share/conkyemail/conkyEmail.py
Comment out (or delete) the line that reads: imap.shutdown()
(This is Line 445 in the version I have)

Voila!

[kaivalagi]

Nice find although it is already commented out in the latest version 2.15

Here's the previous code commit: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~conky-c...il/revision/34

Make sure you're up to date

Cheers

[KenJean]

I figured as much. The version I'm getting through the repositories is still 2.14 - even as I speak.

Don't know how long it takes for them to update these things.

Many thanks for your good work though. Keep it up.

-KJ

[GrouchyGaijin]

I have a quick question.

Since my Gmail account was hacked, I've switched to another account and become a bit paranoid.

If I use the code:

${execi 60 conkyEmail --servertype=POP --servername=my-secure-server --username=my-username --password=my-password}

Am I connecting securely? I like having my email count in conky but don't want my credentials or email floating around open for anyone to see. Do I need to add something to this command to ensure it connects securely? It looks like according to the read me at the start of this thread that I need to.

I'm using conkyMail 2.14

[kaivalagi]

I have a quick question.

Since my Gmail account was hacked, I've switched to another account and become a bit paranoid.

If I use the code:

${execi 60 conkyEmail --servertype=POP --servername=my-secure-server --username=my-username --password=my-password}

Am I connecting securely? I like having my email count in conky but don't want my credentials or email floating around open for anyone to see. Do I need to add something to this command to ensure it connects securely? It looks like according to the read me at the start of this thread that I need to.

I'm using conkyMail 2.14

You need to use the SSL option (--ssl) of the script to enforce encryption of the connection made, this needs a mail service that supports it and may require using a custom port (--port=) too using another script option.

Hope that helps

[GrouchyGaijin]

You need to use the SSL option (--ssl) of the script to enforce encryption of the connection made, this needs a mail service that supports it and may require using a custom port (--port=) too using another script option.

Hope that helps

Thanks for the quick reply.

When I use -e I still get a message count. If I use --SSL I don't.
I *think* I'm setup to use a secure server since my hosting provider Siteground lists two options for server settings. One with secure and one without.
The port they say to use is 995.

[GrouchyGaijin]

OK got it - I need to use:

conkyEmail --ssl --port=995  --servertype=POP...

NOT --SSL

I'm slow.

Thanks!!

[kaivalagi]

OK got it - I need to use:

conkyEmail --ssl --port=995  --servertype=POP...

NOT --SSL

I'm slow.

Thanks!!

-e and --ssl do the same thing, use either

[scratch178]

hi im running mint 12 and i love conky,
but conkyemail doesn't work any more.

${execi 300 conkyEmail --servertype=IMAP --servername=imap.mail.com --username=my email --password=my password --ssl}

if i change imap to pop it is working, but it shows me all the emails in my inbox,
i like to have imap so i only see the new messages.

im running conkyEmail 2.14

terminal output


$ conky
Conky: /home/dominik/.conkyrc: 17: config file error
Conky: desktop window (1000024) is subwindow of root window (15d)
Conky: window type - normal
Conky: drawing to created window (0x3000001)
Conky: drawing to double buffer
ERROR: getIMAPEmailData:Unexpected error:Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/share/conkyemail/conkyEmail.py", line 445, in getIMAPEmailData
imap.shutdown()
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/imaplib.py", line 1187, in shutdown
self.file.close()
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/socket.py", line 282, in close
self._sock.close()
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'close'