[plug] Scripting for email

[Jason Nicholls]

Hiya,

On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 05:03:44PM +0800, Mike Holland wrote:
> Hey! What happened to the "reply-to:" ???? I want it back!
> Waaaa waaaaa whinge ...
> 
> On Fri, 11 Aug 2000, Bradley Browne wrote:
> 
> > a script could be written that would compare the date the file in
> > /var/spool/mail/ was last modified and then send an email to me
> > to let me know if it is more than 24 hours from "now" ago.  Would
> 
> For a shell script, see 'test' which compares the dates on two files.
> You can create a fererence point with: touch -d "1 day ago" filename

Umm, why do that when you have find. Use it to grab a list of files older than
x days ago (best to read the man page), eg for files modified within the last
24 hours::

	find /var/spool/mail/ -mtime 1


Later,

Jason Nicholls
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