On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 01:02:13PM -0700, Paul Mackinney wrote:
> - Nothing ever gets put in my /var/spool/mail/username mbox file, it
> all gets diverted to one of the mboxes listed. The only bummer is that my
> mailcheck at login always says "no mail..." because I haven't booked
> up on the consequences of hacking my MAIL_DIR variable or the default
> login behavior. I've considered replacing /var/spool/mail/username
> with a symlink to ~/Mail/inbox, but since it ain't broken...
instead of the mailcheck thing, if you use procmail you can use
mailstat instead:
$ mailstat ~/path/to/logfile
Total Number Folder
----- ------ ------
67964 6 JUNK-O-RAMA
2649 2 cron
1304826 442 debian-user
2835 1 domain-dontuthink.com
469406 3 easyDXFtype
24138 4 gunk
27406 10 mperl
395912 134 pg-general
20556 26 root
2759 2 serensoft
2221 1 webmaster-serensoft.com
----- ------
2538441 684
it'll tell how how many (after how much!) went into each folder,
thanks to procmail. (of course, mailstat COMES with procmail;
i.e. "apt-get install procmail" to get it.)
or if you're sick of procmail, you can use the much more
friendly exim filters (~/.forward files starting with '# Exim
filter') instead, as long as you log correctly:
# Exim filter
logfile $home/path/to/logfile 0600
# ...
if <some condition> then
deliver SomeFolderOrOther
logwrite "From $return_path $tod_log\n Subject: $h_subject:\n
Folder: SomeFolderOrOther\t\t\t $message_size"
elif <another condition> then
# ...
--
DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #79 from USM Bish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
:
When using a display manager (xdm, kdm, gdm) are your SHELL
DEFAULTS IGNORED IN X? Just add 'source /etc/profile' to
~/.bashrc... or duplicate /etc/profile in ~/.profile
Also see http://newbieDoc.sourceForge.net/ ...
