[Gllug] biff and maildir

[Doug Winter]

On Wed 24 Sep Alan Peery wrote:
> 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.

Blimey.  You'd really do all that just to check for a new file?  I
expect you'd only need 128MB to do it in too :)

doug.

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