appel@ocf.Berkeley.EDU (Shannon D. Appel) (03/08/91)
I've been using mh for some time, but I just started using slocal the other evening. I set my unseen variable (Unseen-Sequence: unseen) so that I could put this line in my .login: scan +inbox unseen. Anyways, this produces the following ugly output if you have no new mail: scan: bad message list unseen and I'd like my .login to be a bit more elegant than that. So, my question is, is there any nice way to do something like this: if (YOU_HAVE_UNSEEN_MAIL_IN_FOLDER_X) then ... Thanks in advance for any input.
rgm@OCF.Berkeley.EDU (Rob Menke) (03/08/91)
It's not pretty but I use: (show unseen > /dev/tty) >& /dev/null -- | Robert Menke "CLANG?!? Did you say 'Clang?'" | rgm@OCF.berkeley.edu | ...!ucbvax!OCF!rgm
jamesp@metolius.wr.tek.COM (James T Perkins) (03/08/91)
Howdy Shannon (Traveller Mailing List subscriber!), Very simply, you could say: sh -c "scan +inbox unseen 2>/dev/null" Which sends the error output to the bitbucket. It depends on /bin/sh to redirect stderr without redirecting stdout (one of things csh doesn't do without major frustration). You could make this more indirect using csh only, with: mhpath +inbox unseen >&/dev/null if ($status == 0) scan +inbox unseen Or something like that. The mhpath lists out the pathnames of the messages in unseen, and sends them to the bitbucket. It sets csh variable status to 0 (success) if there is at least one unseen message, and to 1 (error) if there are no unseen messages (the error message, identical to scan's, has been redirected to the bitbucket). The if tests whether the mhpath suceeded or failed. if it suceeded (at least one message), it runs scan on the unseen messages. James (Traveller Mailing List Admin) ___ ___ ___ | \ / _ \ / __| James Perkins, jamesp@metolius.wr.tek.com, (503)629-1149 | |> || |_| |\__ \ Logic Analyzers Division, DAS 9200 Engineering |___/ |_| |_||___/ Tektronix, MS 92-725, PO Box 4600, Beaverton, OR 97076 This package is sold by weight, not by volume. Some settling of contents may have occurred during shipping and handling.
ziegast@EGYPT.ENG.UMD.EDU (Eric Ziegast) (03/08/91)
Rob Menke writes: >It's not pretty but I use: > >(show unseen > /dev/tty) >& /dev/null Look at mh-profile(5) for more info on using the "unseen" sequence. You need to add this entry to your .mh_profile: Unseen-Sequence: unseen to make sure this works. ________________________________________________________________________ Eric W. Ziegast, University of Merryland, Engineering Computing Services ziegast@eng.umd.edu - Eric@(301.405.3689)
khera@thneed.cs.duke.edu (Vick Khera) (03/08/91)
In article <APPEL.91Mar7114337@swindle.ocf.Berkeley.EDU> appel@ocf.Berkeley.EDU (Shannon D. Appel) writes:
question is, is there any nice way to do something like this:
if (YOU_HAVE_UNSEEN_MAIL_IN_FOLDER_X) then ...
i use the following shell script which i call usmail (for unseen mail)
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#!/bin/csh -f
# V. Khera
# print out listing of unseen mail in mh folder +inbox
# $Id: usmail.csh,v 1.1 90/11/15 17:36:24 khera Exp $
set foo = `mark +inbox -list -sequence unseen`
if ("$foo[2]" != "(null)") then
echo "Unseen mail (inbox):"
scan unseen
else
echo "No unseen mail in inbox."
endif
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