Re: [Discuss] Mailcheck not showing new mail

2014-08-11 Thread Tom Metro
Bill Horne wrote: Here's the output file after I renamed .mailcheckrc: /etc/mailcheckrc has only comments. [...] open(/home/moder8/.mailcheckrc, O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open(/etc/mailcheckrc, O_RDONLY) = 3 fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=1446, ...})

Re: [Discuss] Mailcheck not showing new mail

2014-08-10 Thread Bill Horne
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

Re: [Discuss] Mailcheck not showing new mail

2014-08-10 Thread Tom Metro
Bill Horne wrote: 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? ...why it would be

Re: [Discuss] Mailcheck not showing new mail

2014-08-10 Thread Bill Horne
Bill Horne wrote: 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? ...why it would be

[Discuss] Mailcheck not showing new mail

2014-08-09 Thread Bill Horne
I'm calling mailcheck -cs from my login script, but it is reporting No new mail when it shouldn't be. My .mailcheckrc file has my home mailbox listed. Here's an example: it's what I saw moments ago when I logged on to my Ubuntu 14.04 LTS server, and called mailcheck manually. You have new

Re: [Discuss] Mailcheck not showing new mail

2014-08-09 Thread Tom Metro
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.) ...but it is reporting No new mail when it shouldn't be. You have new mail in