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



On Sun, Feb 08, 2009 at 11:15:31AM +0800, bill lam wrote:
> 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/$USER;\
> > fi<return>\
> > <enter-command>set wait_key<enter>\
> > <fetch-mail>" "fetch local and pop3 mail"
> > 
> 
> Did you forget to file lock mail/$USER on entry of script?
> 

Thanks for pointing that out.  How would I do that?  Set permissions to
non-writable?

Josef.