Jim asked,
How do people normally deal the situation of getting notification on
the MUA machine that mail has been delivered to an arbitrary mail
folder on the server? (Check by hand? Use a client that polls all
folders? Some other solution?)
Nancy replied,
What I do is have an ssh window open with 'tail -f pmlog' running
in it.
I have procmail drop a note (giving the sender, the subject, and the
folder where the message was filed) into a special folder on the same
server. When I read email, I check that notifications folder to find
out which of my other IMAP folders has new email. It does mean deleting
the little notes all the time and dozens of them when I first log on in
the morning, but I can leave the screen or even disconnect or shut down,
and then catch up later.
Nancy's solution would not work well for me, because my IMAP server is
not my own local machine but rather one at an ISP where I have an
account -- actually, two IMAP servers at two different ISPs, and I have
one such notification folders at each account. I used to have the
lesser-used account send its notifications to the more-used account and
have everything in one notification folder, but I changed my mind and
keep them separate now. My system allows me to disconnect, to shut
down, to leave the screen and not be concerned that tail's output will
scroll out of its window: all of those are non-issues for Nancy but
would be problems for me.
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