[H-GEN] New email address.

[Christopher Biggs]

Byron Ellacott <rodent at homer.humbug.org.au> moved upon the face of the 'Net and spake thusly:

> I have
> written a perl script that will check multiple Pine-style mail boxes
> for new mail, reporting the subject and from header fields.  All who
> would like a copy, feel free to privately mail me and ask for it.

Cool... 

I wrote a perlscript that does something similar for a collection of
standard mailspool files (what does Pine use, anyway? just a
file-per-folder?)   However, I don't do it that way any more (the
*large* number of folders extant began to slow this process *way*
down, and I prefer immediate notification in any case).

What *I* do is have my dlvrmail script (which puts messages into
folders) write "messagenumber folder sender subject" (each field
constrained to N columns) to a summary logfile.  

A 90x8 window runs basically "tail -f summary" (but a modified tail
that beeps when new input arrives, it's called bifftail.  It can also
play an audio sample (instead of|as well as) beeping).  So I have biff
with a history.

That facility is not in my procmail as distributed, because it's a
totalbastardhack (but has been running for 3 years now), and I've
always meant to find a more elegant way of doing it.

My current idea is to feed the incoming message events into a
distributed notification system (I'm rolling my own, influenced by
DSTCs "Elvin").


In the tradition of massive thread drift, what's the most bastard
email hack you've done, all?   


Chris "Managing email is what separates us from the apes, son" Biggs

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