[Gllug] biff and maildir

[Alan Peery]

Jonathan Dye wrote:

>Failing that could
>anyone tell me if they know of a biff type program to check maildir
>style mailboxes or IMAP mailboxes?
>  
>
Hmm.  If I wanted my command line to let me know that email had arrived 
I would

1) write a Java program using the JavaMail API that monitored the 
folders I was interested in (listed in ~/.jmailcheck).  On start it 
would write the network port it was listening on and a key to 
~/.jmailcheck.access.
2) Figure out how to trigger a program every time the shell prompt was 
being reissued, so that small client executable or shell built-in could 
contact the server and find what mail had arrived.

Alan




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