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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Reading a mailbox and sending new messages to a text file Post 302186550 by era on Thursday 17th of April 2008 01:35:09 PM
Old 04-17-2008
How do you know which messages are new? What if a user removes some messages? What's the point of this? (Homework? We don't like homework here.)

The Berkeley mbox format separates messages with a "From" line, containing the five letters "From", space, the sender's address (just the bare email address), two spaces, and a time stamp. There are various variations and perversions, but if your local delivery agent updates the time stamp when it writes a new message to the file, you can tell from that which messages are new. This is (reasonably) robust against the common case that a user removes a message from the mailbox while you're not looking.

If this is for "real world" requirements, I'd suggest you take a quick look at Procmail.
 

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MBOXCHECK(1)						User Contributed Perl Documentation					      MBOXCHECK(1)

NAME
mboxcheck - MBOX mail checking program. SYNOPSIS
mboxcheck [options] [file [...] ] DESCRIPTION
MBOXcheck is a simple mailbox checker. Give some options and at least one mailbox file as an argument and it will print some status of how many messages there are and which status they have. OPTIONS
--help The help text. -h --version The version information about this tool. -V --showon [v][?] When to show a mailbox in the list. [v] - verbose, always show. [?] - show when count is above 0 for the below types, see --show what for more information about that. The default is to trigger only on new messages (--showon new). --show [n][s][r][o][a][d] What counts to show. The caracter in the bracket is the short form. The what string can be comma separated to specify more than one option. Multiple --show options will add more (and will not remove shows). [n] - new (new messages) [s] - seen (seen but not read messages) [r] - read (read and answered messages) [o] - onlyread (just read messages) [a] - answered (answered messages) [d] - deleted (deleted messages) The default is to show new and seen messages (--show ns). --recurse This option will tell the tool to recurse into -R -r subdirectories. --nosymlink Tell the program to ignore symlinked files and directories. --cachedir dir A temporary directory to use for speedup cache (default ~/.mboxcheckcache) --nocache Do not use a temporary directory. CACHE
The cache file is named after the path to the file with slash caracters '/' replaced with two commas ',,'. The content is a list of comma separated values; last position, new, seen, only read, answered and deleted mail. AUTHOR
Ola Lundqvist <opal@debian.org> SEE ALSO
http://inguza.com/software/mboxcheck Mboxcheck Sat Apr 7 19:16:14 CEST 2012 MBOXCHECK(1)
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