Now, I have mail filter, that starts java program. This program runs up to 10 seconds and takes a lot of CPU time. While the program is running, the whole Kontact application does not respond on user interface actions.

I want to execute the program in background with increased niceness. Now my commend line to execute from KMail looks like this

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pushd /home/pavel/apps/SynchronizeToWpkg; nice java -jar dist/SynchronizeToWpkg.jar --wpkg-file-pattern=file:///mnt/tesla_wpkg/wpkg-client-results/.*-all.xml --packages-dir=file:///mnt/tesla_wpkg/packages/; popd &

But Kontact is still frozen while the program is running. So... how can I detatch my program from KMail or execute it in seperate thread?

Maybe the program can be persuaded to work like Spamasssing, i.e. as a separate service where KMail only invokes a small helper program that then communicates with the service?

Cheers,
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anda_skoa wrote:...i.e. as a separate service where KMail only invokes a small helper program that then communicates with the service?

My program is simple console program. It should not work like a service (daemon).

Hmm, but you are already running it like a service (in the background), just not communicating with it like that.

Anyway, while I can only guess I think KMail already runs the external program in a separate process, but maybe it is waiting for its output and the program is not delivering it?

Cheers,
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