In order not to have to scan all my mail frequently I am hoping that this
utility can be made by having procmail call the utility every time it
delivers a mail. Using information about which folder the mail has been
delivered to the utility can then update the counters, and I can see it in
a window in a corner of my desktop without having to type mailstat all the
time.
My questions are therefore :
1) Is there already such a utility out there ?
xbuffy comes quite close to what you want. Get Brandon Long's patched version
off http://www.fiction.net/blong/programs/#xbuffy
2) Is it possible to tell procmail to pass delivery information on to some
other process ? And if so, how ?
3) [This is possibly not a procmail question, but anyway ...] How can you
tell the difference between an unread and an unseen message in a
folder ? (i.e. how does pine know which folders to stop at when
tabbing ?)
[You have my dearest sympathies for using pine. Ever tried mutt?]