> So anyway, with that commented out, now I am looking at solutions > like biff, ixbiff, from, and so forth. Yes, "from" is a command I heard > about from Evan. It does almost exactly what I want, but it will tell > me total message count, not just NEW message count. Basically, I'm > thinking now about writing my own little program that will parse through > the e-mail headers in my mailbox(es) and look at the "Status" or > whatever it is that says it has been read.
Here is what I do. I have procmail log all incoming mail to .maillog in my
home dir. I have the following alias set: alias from='tail -f ~emcnabb/.maillog'
I just open up another window and run from. I see messages come in and
know what folders they go to. Here is an example from that terminal window right
now:
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From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Feb 14 16:20:18 2003
Subject: wine
Folder: /home/emcnabb/mail/pluglist 3152
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Feb 14 16:30:28 2003
Subject: RE: [uug] most expensive computer repair shop in salt lake/orem/provo
Folder: /home/emcnabb/mail/uug-discuss 3787
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Feb 14 16:30:28 2003
Subject: Re: [uug] most expensive computer repair shop in salt lake/orem/provo
Folder: /home/emcnabb/mail/uug-discuss 4029
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Feb 14 16:30:30 2003
Subject: Re: [uug] Now that I have procmail all set up...
Folder: /home/emcnabb/mail/uug-discuss 3519
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This works great because when I wake up in the morning (or anytime I haven't checked
mail in a while) I run fetchmail and just watch what message come in. I have procmail
put messages in 7 or 8 directories and get a *ton* of mail, so I want to see what
comes in so I can see where to start checking my mail.
This isn't exactly what you're looking for, but this is what I do instead.
-Evan
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