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Re: New mail notification not working
- X-seq: zsh-users 4214
- From: Russell Hoover <rj@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: zsh-users@xxxxxxxxxx
- Subject: Re: New mail notification not working
- Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2001 13:33:09 -0400
- Cc: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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On Fri 09/07/01 at 05:11 PM +0000, Bart Schaefer
<schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> No, you don't need anything after the name of the directory; you
> don't even need the trailing slash, though it should be harmless.
Thanks -- I asked that because the last sentence for the ``mailpath''
entry in the manual is this:
``If an element is a directory instead
of a file the shell will recursively
check every file in every subdirectory
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
of the element."
Which might well lead one to believe that, in the case of maildirs, unless
I specified the ``new'' subdir, zsh would check the ``tmp'' and ``cur''
subdirs as well, and checking ``cur'' could be a disaster as ``cur'' might
contain dozens or hundreds of (non-new) messages.
> Anyway, mailstat() is using a single static structure to keep track of
> the last-modified time of the maildir "new" subdir. This means that it
> only works correctly if you have exactly one maildir directory in your
> mailpath -- if you have multiple maildirs, it gets confused about which
> modified-time to compare; it checks each maildir for new-ness against
> the modified time of the one preceding it in the mailpath, cycling to
> check the first maildir against the last on subsequent calls.
To understand this fully I seem to need to make a distinction: you say
"exactly one maildir directory in your mailpath" -- Does that mean that
I must have only one *defined* in my mailpath, or only one in existence?
(I'd be quite satisfied, for now at least, to have notification working
just for my inbox.)
I have a total of two directories for all my mail: (a) my inbox, which
is ~/.mailspool/rj/ (with the three maildir subdirs -- ``cur'', ``new'',
and ``tmp'' -- inside of that) and (b) a ``Mail'' directory, containing
about a dozen subdirs of various mailing-list nicknames, etc. (and each
of them, of course, has *its* own set of the three maildir subdirs).
Shouldn't notification be working if I just have either of these defined
in my .zshrc:
export MAIL=$HOME/.mailspool/rj
or: mailpath=($HOME/.mailspool/rj'?New mail has arrived.')
(btw, should the opening quote-mark above be where it is, or should it
be just before ``$HOME'', or does it matter?)
OR, does the mere fact that I have several maildirs *simply existing*
in the ``Mail'' directory (which is not defined in either ``MAIL'' or
``mailpath'' in my zsh init files) -- does that *in and of itself*
confound mailstat?
(If it's the latter, it would seem that I'm out of luck until mailstat()
can be re-made along the lines of your suggestion.)
> So you ought to be getting notified some of the time, but it would seem
> random when you don't know what's going on.
I am only getting the (default) notification under one circumstance only,
and that is the following:
(a) From within either mutt's index or pager, I press `e' in mutt
to edit the raw message;
(b) I am put into vim and I edit the message;
(c) I write-quit out of vim and the new message appears in
mutt's index, while the previous version of that message
is marked for deletion;
(d) I quickly switch to another terminal window and see
``You have new mail.'' appear before the zsh prompt
after I press the RETURN key.
Thank you for your indulgence (trying not to seem too
obtuse about it all).
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