Re: how to check incoming mail per Date field

daniel asked: 
    
> variable CURRENT_DATE='date +%a, %d %h 19%y'.  Will
> the following sort yesterdays' mail to DATE.mbox?:
>
> CURRENT_DATE='date +%a, %d %h 19%y'
> MBOX_DATE='date +%y%m%d'
>
> :0
> * ^Date:.* < CURRENT_DATE
> $MAILDIR/${MBOX_DATE}_mbox
        Nope.  The test condition will try to match that regular expression.
I would probably run a cron or at job to dump the date into a file and
then do something like

MBOX_DATE=`cat $file`

or even have the file contain the assignment and just INCLUDERC=$file.

Soren