On 8/9/2014 11:06 PM, Tom Metro wrote:
Bill Horne wrote:
I'm calling "mailcheck -cs " from my login script...
I presume this mailcheck:
http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/precise/man1/mailcheck.1.html
(There seem to be several tools with that name.)
That's the one.
...but it is reporting "No new mail" when it shouldn't be.
You have new mail in /var/mail/moder8
moder8@telecom:~$ mailcheck -cs
No new mail.
My .mailcheckrc file has my home mailbox listed.
The first message, presumably produced by 'mail', is reported on your
spool file, not Maildirs in your home directory. You say .mailcheckrc
specifies your "home mailbox." What exactly do you mean by that?
To match 'mail' I'd expect it to be:
/var/mail/$(USER)
It's /var/mail/moder8, which is the actual name, but it's in there.
... oops, wait: I just noticed that the file name is ".mailcheckr".
<Home Simpson mode=on>
D-Oh! (Slaps head)
</simpson>
Hey, just a sec:
The result of running "mailcheck -cs" without a local .mailcheckrc is
"no new mail." when there is mail in the mailbox, and no output when the
mailbox is empty. It *is* paying attention to the mail spool, albeit not
in the way I want. What's up with that?
Also check to see if /etc/mailcheckrc exists and see what it points to.
(If it does not already, it should probably contain a path, as I show
above, that matches the convention of where inboxes are stored on your
system.)
Another puzzle: on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, it's all commented out. There is an
entry that looks like
#/var/spool/mail/$(USER)
( /var/spool/mail is a link to ../mail)
... but nothing actually enabled, for that or other options.
(brief pause while Bill corrects short circuit in operator)
Now, with a properly named .mailcheckrc file, it seems to do what it
should. My question remains, though, why it would be able to tell the
difference between a spool file with <anything> in it, or <nothing> in
it, but not signal if the file has new mail?
Bill
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E. William Horne
William Warren Consulting
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