>I'd like to run maildirsmtp as a cron job but only if any outgoing mail
>exists, ie;
>
> if <any new mail in Maildir> then run maildirsmtp
>
>What's the "best" way to check for new mail in a Maildir?
You could probably get quite fancy by looking at the mtime of the new/
directory vs a control file, but that's not easy (or possible?) in a shell
script.
Another choice is a program that does a readdir() (sans stat() calls).
In the scheme of things:
> Currently I'm thinking of using a script something like this:
> #!/bin/bash
>if [ 'ls ~alias/pppdir/new | wc -w' != "" ] ; then
> # run maildirsmtp here
>fi
Is probably fine. If the directory is huge then this is slowish, but then
you have a large maildirsmtp process that follows, so who cares? Certainly
it's pretty cheap for an empty directory.
Regards.
