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Re: How can I get mail from /var/mail/jatmin to my spoolfile



On Sat, 07 Feb 2009, Josef Atmin wrote:
> After having discovered macros I came up with the following solution for 
> moving mail from /var/mail/jatmin to ~/INBOX.
> 
>    macro index,pager G "\
> <enter-command>unset wait_key<enter>\
> <shell-escape>\
> if [[ -s /var/mail/$USER ]]; then\
>   cat /var/mail/$USER >> ~/INBOX;\
>   echo -n > /var/mail/$USER;\
> fi<return>\
> <enter-command>set wait_key<enter>\
> <fetch-mail>" "fetch local and pop3 mail"
> 
> This seems to do what I want.  It is a hack, and I am not quite sure 
> whether it is safe (therefore my version within the if-statement looks 
> like
> 
>   cp /var/mail/$USER ~/=var=mail=$USER-backup;\
>   cp ~/INBOX ~/INBOX-backup;\
>   cat /var/mail/$USER >> ~/INBOX;\
>   echo -n > /var/mail/$USER;\
>   echo There has been local e-Mail!;\
>   sleep 2;\

Did you forget to file lock mail/$USER on entry of script?

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