mark@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (10/23/90)
I am using mh and am usually logging in from an xterminal. I have my mail automagically inc-ed using .forward and .maildelivery (thanks to this notesfile) Anyone out there care to share with me how you would use xbiff to monitor ~/mail/mh/1, to consider it true? If the file dne, my xbiff breaks down and never shows up (I guess it wants a file of length 0??) Any help greatly appreciated! -------------------------------------------------------------- Mark Rendina "There's nothin' wong, it just dodn wook" mark@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu - What I learned at Fermilab University of Illinois
ziegast@ENG.UMD.EDU (Eric Ziegast) (10/25/90)
Mark writes: >I am using mh and am usually logging in from an xterminal. >I have my mail automagically inc-ed using .forward and .maildelivery >(thanks to this notesfile) > >Anyone out there care to share with me how you would use xbiff to >monitor ~/mail/mh/1, to consider it true? If the file dne, my xbiff >breaks down and never shows up (I guess it wants a file of length 0??) The method I used in my last message "should" work. I haven't tested it, though. I'll try it tomorrow and see what happens. (I can't do much with a VT100 form home.) ________________________________________________________________________ Eric W. Ziegast, University of Merryland, Engineering Computing Services ziegast@eng.umd.edu - Eric@[301.405.3689]
mcgrew@ichthous.Eng.Sun.COM (Darin McGrew) (10/26/90)
In article <72800001@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> mark@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu writes: >I am using mh and am usually logging in from an xterminal. >I have my mail automagically inc-ed using .forward and .maildelivery >(thanks to this notesfile) > >Anyone out there care to share with me how you would use xbiff to >monitor ~/mail/mh/1, to consider it true? If the file dne, my xbiff >breaks down and never shows up (I guess it wants a file of length 0??) What I would do instead of having xbiff look at at your +inbox, is use the checkCommand resource of xbiff to give it a command that returns 0, 1, or 2 (new mail, no change, or mail cleared). I've done this to teach xbiff to check both news and notes, and it works fine. All you have to do is supply the appropriate checkCommand. Darin McGrew mcgrew@Eng.Sun.COM Affiliation stated for identification purposes only.
jdpeek@RODAN.ACS.SYR.EDU (Jerry Peek) (10/26/90)
Darin McGrew <mcgrew@Eng.Sun.COM> wrote: > In article <72800001@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> mark@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu writes: > >Anyone out there care to share with me how you would use xbiff to > >monitor ~/mail/mh/1, to consider it true? If the file dne, my xbiff > >breaks down and never shows up (I guess it wants a file of length 0??) > > What I would do instead of having xbiff look at at your +inbox, > is use the checkCommand resource of xbiff to give it a command > that returns 0, 1, or 2 (new mail, no change, or mail cleared). > I've done this to teach xbiff to check both news and notes, and > it works fine. All you have to do is supply the appropriate > checkCommand. One easy thing to check is the inbox folder itself. In other words, check the directory file /<your-home-directory>/Mail/inbox. If a new message is added to the folder, the directory file itself will be modified. I don't know how that would work with 'xbiff'. But I used that trick with the C-shell's '$mail' variable once: set mail = (60 /usr/spool/mail/jdpeek /etc/motd /some/directory) and if the '/some/directory' directory was modified, the shell would say: New mail in /some/directory. --Jerry Peek; Syracuse University Academic Computing Services; Syracuse, NY jdpeek@rodan.acs.syr.edu, JDPEEK@SUNRISE.BITNET +1 315 443-3995
ziegast@ENG.UMD.EDU (Eric Ziegast) (10/28/90)
Jerry Peek writes: >Darin McGrew <mcgrew@Eng.Sun.COM> wrote: >> In article <72800001@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> mark@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu writes: >> >Anyone out there care to share with me how you would use xbiff to >> >monitor ~/mail/mh/1, to consider it true? If the file dne, my xbiff >> >breaks down and never shows up (I guess it wants a file of length 0??) > >One easy thing to check is the inbox folder itself. In other words, check >the directory file /<your-home-directory>/Mail/inbox. If a new message is >added to the folder, the directory file itself will be modified. I find out that xbiff may not work in the future using the method I used and the one Jerry describes above. According to our local X guru, there are two versions of xbiff. The first version only checks to see if the file size changes, or if the file is cleared. The newer version does checking which is more specific to /usr/ucb/Mail format. I found this out when I tried using "xbiff -file ~/Mail/inbox/1" on two different systems, and one worked while the other didn't. ________________________________________________________________________ Eric W. Ziegast, University of Merryland, Engineering Computing Services ziegast@eng.umd.edu - Eric@[301.405.3689]
jch@risci.tn.cornell.edu (Jeffrey C Honig) (10/28/90)
I just thought I would throw in my 2 cents worth. I use a wrapper
around slocal, primarily because sendmail does not grok the return
codes issued by slocal (someday I'll get around to fixing that). A
side effect is that I can then specify the -verbose switch to slocal
and get a log of mail received into a file. I use a sh/awk script to
scan this log and show me which folders mail was stored in.
This turns out to work very nicely with xbiff, I just point it at this
log file:
xbiff*file: Mail/slocal.log
I'm including my wrapper script. Note that it uses a temporaray file
to reduce the chance of multiple invocations from jumbling the file.
I invoke it with a .forward of:
"| cd /mu/jch; bin/slocal -user jch -verbose"
I've written a program to replace the mini awk script to allow scripts
to read .mh_profile, but haven't updated this script yet. It is
called mhparam and prints to stdout the value of any .mh_profile
entries you specify on the command line. I'll submit it to the MH
maintainers eventually, send me e-mail if you can't wait.
Jeff
#!/bin/sh
file=/tmp/`basename ${0}`.$$
status=0
HOME=${PWD=`pwd`} export HOME
profile=${PWD-`pwd`}/.mh_profile
slocal=`mhpath +`/`/bin/awk "\\\$1 == \"Slocal-Log:\" { print \\\$2 }" ${profile}`
echo "`date`: ${0} ${*}" > ${file} 2>&1
/usr/local/lib/mh/slocal ${*} >> ${file} 2>&1 || status=75
if [ -n ${slocal-""} ]; then
cat ${file} >> ${slocal}
fi
rm ${file}
exit $statuslawrence@epps.kodak.com (Scott Lawrence) (10/30/90)
In article <72800001@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu>, mark@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu writes: > > Anyone out there care to share with me how you would use xbiff to > monitor ~/mail/mh/1, to consider it true? If the file dne, my xbiff > breaks down and never shows up (I guess it wants a file of length 0??) > I have the following in my .maildelivery: default - | A /usr/local/lib/mh/rcvstore * - | R /usr/local/lib/mh/mailnotice the first causes the auto-inc, of course; the second line triggers my mail notification script, which is appended below. It sends a zephyr notice and adds a line to a .biff file in my home directory (and at the same time removes any from previous days to keep the file from growing forever). Then I use "xbiff -file .biff". mailnotice: #!/bin/sh # # This script expects stdin to be a mail message # # Send a zephyr notice Class: MAIL Instance: MH Destination: $USER # awk '/From:/ {print}; /Subject:/ {print} /^$/ {exit}' - | /usr/local/bin/zwrite -n -s "" -c MAIL -i MH $USER # # If a .biff file exists, add a line to it; # this can be used by: xbiff -file .biff # to change the state of the biff icon # # All the fancy stuff with the date is intended to keep the file from # growing without limit - the date is added to the file, and then any # dates not todays date are removed. # if [ -f $HOME/.biff ]; then date +%y%m%d%t%T | cat $HOME/.biff - | \ awk '$1==TODAY {print}' TODAY=`date +%y%m%d` > $HOME/.biff fi exit 0 --- Scott Lawrence Internet: <lawrence@epps.kodak.com> Voice: 508-670-4023 Fax: 508-670-4033 Electronic Pre-Press Systems; 165 Lexington St. 400/165L; Billerica MA 01821 -- --- Scott Lawrence Internet: <lawrence@epps.kodak.com> Voice: 508-670-4023 Fax: 508-670-4033 Electronic Pre-Press Systems; 165 Lexington St. 400/165L; Billerica MA 01821