I've been setting up and tweaking procmail the past few days and so far it
is working great. The is one thing I can't figure out, and I can't find a
solution in any of the faq's that I've seen so far. I use finger to check
if I have mail because it is a lot faster than loading up an email program.
After I got procmail running though, finger didn't display the "New mail
since..." message. I search through tons of faqs and found this bit of
code.
:0 chi
| /usr/5bin/touch $ORGMAIL
I put that at the top of my .procmailrc file and it fixes the problem
sometimes. If the message gets caught by any of the recipes, it is moved to
the folder and finger won't display a new mail message. If it gets dumped
to my default mailbox, finger works correctly.
What is that bit of code doing? Why does it only work when it gets dumped
to the default mailbox? Is it possible to have finger display "New mail
since..." whenever any messages come in? Can I have certain recipes update
the "new messages" and have other ones not touch it?
Thank you for your time.
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