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;\
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