From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/7448 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ed Donovan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Feature request ? (or help) Date: 03 Aug 1996 02:55:53 -0400 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035147760 7269 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 21:02:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 21:02:40 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: ding-request@ifi.uio.no Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by deanna.miranova.com (8.7.5/8.6.9) with SMTP id AAA10575 for ; Sat, 3 Aug 1996 00:19:02 -0700 Original-Received: from europe.std.com (europe.std.com [199.172.62.20]) by ifi.uio.no with ESMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Sat, 3 Aug 1996 08:55:56 +0200 Original-Received: from world.std.com by europe.std.com (8.7.5/BZS-8-1.0) id CAA00815; Sat, 3 Aug 1996 02:55:54 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: by world.std.com (5.65c/Spike-2.0) id AA19177; Sat, 3 Aug 1996 02:55:54 -0400 Original-To: ding@ifi.uio.no In-Reply-To: Steven L Baur's message of 02 Aug 1996 12:14:46 -0700 Original-Lines: 32 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.2.34/Emacs 19.30 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:7448 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:7448 Steven L Baur writes: > >>>>> "ckd" == Christopher Davis writes: > ckd> Here's a perl script which is a little more sophisticated than > ckd> your shell script; procmailers may want to look at this. (I'm > ckd> not yet using Gnus to handle my mail... does use of procmail > ckd> *without* suffixes, using the directory to disambiguate the > ckd> incoming spools and the Gnus-managed mail storage, work? I know > ckd> this had problems in the past...) > > There's also Joe Hildebrand's wonderful jangle.tcl which is a tcl/tk > program that keeps track of mail spool files with new mail in them. There's also also (not at all to say what's better or best) the 'mailstat' shell script in the procmail package. I call it on login, 'mailstat ~/.procmail/log' and get: Total Number Folder ----- ------ ------ 3627 2 /usr/spool/mail/edonovan 5454 2 debian-changes.spool 121747 56 debian-user.spool 62155 26 ding.spool 3158 1 w3-beta.spool 19540 12 xmalpha.spool (I got this from the Filtering Mail FAQ, which was a great document for me beginning this stuff, so I plug it: the usual faq-y places & ) -- Ed Donovan edonovan@world.std.com