Re: How could i get some indication of a new message ?

On Mon, 19 May 1997, era eriksson wrote:

> Thanks, but what I had in mind was something that could tell me how
> many messages there are in each folder, i.e. something like 
>
>   Mail:1  Procmail:1  Spam-Law:322
I want this too!  I really wish Pine's folder list had this,
but a client program that can report it would be fine.

It would be nice to do something like:

#!bash
for folder in procmail Mail Spam
do
        count=$(grep ^From $folder | wc -l)
        /bin/echo -n $folder:$count\\t
done