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From: appel@ocf.Berkeley.EDU (Shannon D. Appel)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh
Subject: Using Unseen to check for new mail
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Date: 7 Mar 91 16:43:37 GMT
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I've been using mh for some time, but I just started using slocal
the other evening.  I set my unseen variable (Unseen-Sequence: unseen)
so that I could put this line in my .login: scan +inbox unseen.  Anyways,
this produces the following ugly output if you have no new mail:

scan: bad message list unseen

and I'd like my .login to be a bit more elegant than that.  So, my 
question is, is there any nice way to do something like this:

if (YOU_HAVE_UNSEEN_MAIL_IN_FOLDER_X) then ...

Thanks in advance for any input.