Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> writes: > On Wed, 28 Dec 2016 17:20:50 +0100, lee wrote: > >> > #!/bin/sh >> > >> > if [ $( eselect news count new ) != "0" ]; then >> > eselect news list | mail y...@wherever.you.are >> > fi >> >> Thanks! To actually read the news as email, I wrote this: >> >> #!/usr/bin/perl > [massive snip] > > What does this actually do? Does it separate each news item into a > separate mail, which sounds a neat idea. If you just want all the news > news items, you could replace "list" with "read new" in my > script^H^H^H^H^^Hhack.
You can set it up either way, i. e. all in one email, or each item in one, or several items in several mails, by setting $msglen. I didn't know there is 'read new' ...
