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Re: spool monitoring and "new mail" notification

1998-10-16 06:11:48
At 10:29 AM 10/16/98 +0300, Jari Aalto+list.procmail wrote:
|Thu 1998-10-15 Dallman Ross <dman(_at_)netcom(_dot_)com> list.procmail
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|   NEWMAIL(1L)       MISC. REFERENCE MANUAL PAGES        NEWMAIL(1L)

Nice idea, but our HP newmail seems to track maximum of 25 folders only...

   % newmail ~/Mail/spool/list.*
   Sorry, but I can only keep track of 25 folders.

My ISP's SunOS version also has this limit; I'd guess it's in the source.

If you have that many folders you care about mail arriving in, you can run
multiple instances of newmail.

    cd ~/Mail/whatever
    newmail list.[a-e]*
    newmail list.[f-k]*
    etc.

Now tell me you have more folders than (25 * allowed processes)   :-)

Cheers,
Stan

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