Hi again!
I suppose I should answer my own question now that I've figured it out;
this works pretty well and I'm even looking at letting my script clear my
procmail log for me.
...and then David @ BigFoot said...
% Hi, folks --
%
% I dump my incoming mail into =F.* with procmail, and I have a little
% alias that keeps track of the log and gives me stats like
%
% -rw-r--r-- 1 davidtg 0 Mar 1 15:24 .mail.log.date
% The current date is: Mar 2 08:37
%
% 50
% Folder: /usr/bin/formail
% Folder: /var/spool/mail/davidtg
% Folder: F.funnies
% Folder: F.lists
% Folder: F.mutt
% Folder: F.news
% Folder: F.root
%
% I can thus see how many new messages (50) have come in since I last
% cleared the log, and where they landed (a few just went through formail,
% some hit $MAIL, and the rest landed in =F.*). If I stay on top of things,
...
% I'd like to whip up a little muttrc which says
%
% source $HOME/mutt/.muttrc
% push 'l ~r 01/03/2000-'
%
% and then fire up mutt on the F.* folder using -F to source *this* muttrc
% file, but I can't get the push grammar right. Maybe push isn't what I
% need to just limit the display, perhaps. Help!
The little script that checks the date of last clearing and then
generates the date-limited muttrc (as well as generating the folder list)
is attached. As expected, it was simply a matter of quoting properly :-)
:-D
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#!/bin/sh
# quick hack to show all mail since last procmail clear in all folders
# get folder list from procmail log; get date from timestamp ; build muttrc
# get folder list from procmail log
list=`egrep '^ Folder: F' $HOME/.procmail/.mail.log | awk '{print $2}' | sort -u`
# get last-cleared date from timestamp file
eval `/bin/ls -lFo $HOME/.procmail/.mail.log.date | awk '{print "month=" $5 "; day="
$6 "; time=" $7}'`
# parse some fields
case $month in # convert to numeric
Jan ) mon=01 ;; Feb ) mon=02 ;; Mar ) mon=03 ;; Apr ) mon=04 ;;
May ) mon=05 ;; Jun ) mon=06 ;; Jul ) mon=07 ;; Aug ) mon=08 ;;
Sep ) mon=09 ;; Oct ) mon=10 ;; Nov ) mon=11 ;; Dec ) mon=12 ;;
esac
[ $day -lt 10 ] && day=0$day # force two-digit
case $time in
[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9] ) year=$time ;; # strange but true
[0-9][0-9]:[0-9][0-9] ) year=`date +%Y` # get the year
esac
# create special muttrc for since-this-date
cat > $HOME/.mutt/muttrc.date << END_OF_MUTT
source $HOME/.mutt/muttrc
push "l ~N ~r $day/$mon/$year-\n"
END_OF_MUTT
# read the list of mailboxes
for box in $list
do
mutt -F $HOME/.mutt/muttrc.date -f =$box
done
## .../.procmail/.mail.log.date.last
## .../.procmail/.mail.log.`cat ...date.last`
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