Subject: Counting New Unread Mail

From: Paul O Bartlett <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 1996 09:32:02 -0400

(I hope this does not appear twice; my server appears to be having
(some problems.)

    I use Un*x procmail to sort incoming mail into various folders.  I
have a simple shell script which calls a perl script to look into each
folder and display how many messages are in each folder by name.  This
saves me from opening up empty folders and also allows me to check the
status of mail from any shell prompt.  (These scripts are available to
anyone via my WWW home page.)

    If possible, I would like to be able to do something similar with
newsgroups: some script or program which could look at my .newsrc file
and at the newsgroups to see if there are any new news postings I have
not read yet.  Does anyone know of any utility like this?

    For the record, I am on a SunOS 4.1.4 system using Pine 3.93, and
in my Pine config the nntp-server entry is defaulted and the
news-collections entry reads

        <No Value Set: using *{newsreader.digex.net/nntp}[]>

Thanks.
Paul                             <[email-masked]>
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