On Wed, 9 Jun 2004, Charlie Schluting wrote:
> modify to taste from here:
> http://schluting.com/count
Thanks, Charlie. Using your blueprint, this is what I came up with. I
have a LOT of mailboxes, so I limited the search to a few. I just
needed notification of new mail. Here's what I came up with. I run it
in the background.
Regards,
Paul
---
#!/bin/sh
MAILDIR=$HOME/mail
GREP=/bin/grep
TOTAL_COUNT=0
MAILBOXES="Musicians OurPlace [BLUE] [PDXLUG] [SYSTEM]"
OLDMAILDIR=""
while [ 0 = 0 ]; do
cd $MAILDIR
MAILIN=""
for each in /var/mail/$USER $MAILBOXES
do
if [ -f $each ]; then
totalCount=`$GREP "^From " $each | wc -l`
readCount=`$GREP "^Status: RO" $each | wc -l`
unreadCount=`expr $totalCount - $readCount`
if [ $TOTAL_COUNT -eq 0 ]; then
TOTAL_COUNT=`expr $TOTAL_COUNT + $unreadCount`
fi
if ! [ $unreadCount -eq 0 ]; then
if [ "$each" = "/var/mail/$USER" ]; then each="INBOX"; fi
MAILIN="$MAILIN $each"
fi
fi
done
if ! [ "$MAILIN" = "" ]; then
if ! [ "$MAILIN" = "$OLDMAILIN" ]; then
OLDMAILIN=$MAILIN
echo "You have new mail in:$MAILIN"
fi
fi
sleep 60
done
--- _
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Linux enthusiast /\\
www.fedora.com _\_v
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