Re: Mailbox check utility

Paul Lankow wrote:
> I wasn't very clear. Pine works great with IMAP and I can see all my 
> mailboxes. Procmail sends email to different mailboxes but Pine only 
> informs me about new mail in the INBOX, not the others. I am looking 
> for a command-line solution to polling all my mailboxes.
> 
> Thanks!
> Paul

Two solutions:

1) Turn on comsat notifications: 'biff y'
and in your .procmailrc, make the filtered email sound a comsat alarm. Here's an 
example of how I do it:

:0:
* (^TO_.*)linux-kernel.*kernel.org
{
     COMSAT=no
     :0
     LKML
}

If you *want* notifications, just say COMSAT=yes. The LKML is way too verbose 
for that :)

2) Sometimes I run a script that checks all mbox files in ~/mail/ for new 
messages, the prints a color coded output of each folder. Looks like this (but 
in color):
   INBOX           2     unchanged since: Jun  9 16:52  |
   support         2     unchanged since: Jun  9 16:42  |
   linuxteam       294   unchanged since: Jun  9 15:32  |

The numbers are the amount of unread messages. You can grab the script, and 
modify to taste from here:
http://schluting.com/count
Might want this too (wget, don't copy & paste):
http://schluting.com/ansiColors

Some people like the script, some don't. Neither are really ideal solutions 
..but work well enough. I rarely use pine/mh/mutt anymore since I discovered how 
nice thunderbird is.

-Charlie