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From: jch@risci.tn.cornell.edu (Jeffrey C Honig)
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Subject: Re: xbiff with automagic-incing
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Date: 28 Oct 90 03:47:27 GMT
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I just thought I would throw in my 2 cents worth.  I use a wrapper
around slocal, primarily because sendmail does not grok the return
codes issued by slocal (someday I'll get around to fixing that).  A
side effect is that I can then specify the -verbose switch to slocal
and get a log of mail received into a file.  I use a sh/awk script to
scan this log and show me which folders mail was stored in.

This turns out to work very nicely with xbiff, I just point it at this
log file:

	xbiff*file:		Mail/slocal.log

I'm including my wrapper script.  Note that it uses a temporaray file
to reduce the chance of multiple invocations from jumbling the file.
I invoke it with a .forward of:

"| cd /mu/jch; bin/slocal -user jch -verbose"

I've written a program to replace the mini awk script to allow scripts
to read .mh_profile, but haven't updated this script yet.  It is
called mhparam and prints to stdout the value of any .mh_profile
entries you specify on the command line.  I'll submit it to the MH
maintainers eventually, send me e-mail if you can't wait.

Jeff


#!/bin/sh

file=/tmp/`basename ${0}`.$$
status=0
HOME=${PWD=`pwd`} export HOME
profile=${PWD-`pwd`}/.mh_profile
slocal=`mhpath +`/`/bin/awk "\\\$1 == \"Slocal-Log:\" { print \\\$2 }" ${profile}`

echo "`date`: ${0} ${*}"	> ${file} 2>&1
/usr/local/lib/mh/slocal ${*} >> ${file} 2>&1 || status=75

if [ -n ${slocal-""} ]; then
	cat ${file} >> ${slocal}
fi	

rm ${file}

exit $status