--As of August 25, 2014 4:00:15 AM +0000, Eric Wong is alleged to have said:
Daniel Staal <dst...@usa.net> wrote:
Good points, but inotify might still be overkill. `ls maildir/cur/
| grep ',.*S` will give you all messages that have been seen in the
mailbox, so you can run on a periodic schedule fairly easily. I'm
not sure whether you need the immediate notification inotify gives.
I used to use `find' in a similar way you use `ls', but that redundantly
trains old ham messages. That's slow for large ham folders, but fine
for spam, though (combined with `rm').
But maybe training ham is overkill? I'm not sure about that.
I've never actually found it worth the effort to set up, personally. I
archive the old spam into another folder, but basically the same idea.
You could use `ls -t` + `head` to only get new files... (I was mostly
pointing out that the info is in the filename.) Or you could resort to a
script I wrote ages ago that simplifies some of that. ;)
<https://github.com/DanStaal/Arcfind>
(I really should finish cleaning it up for CPAN at some point...)
inotify won't work for me - I'm on a BSD where inotify doesn't exist
- but it's an interesting approach.
Yeah, I wonder if there's something like incron for kqueue, since I
know kqueue supports FS notifications.
You probably could do it using famd, I think... (Though it's a bit less
widespread.)
Daniel T. Staal
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