chkmail

Langue: en

Version: 110711 (mandriva - 01/05/08)

Section: 1 (Commandes utilisateur)

NAME

chkmail - check for new mail

SYNTAX

chkmail [-debug] [-verbose] mailbox

DESCRIPTION

chkmail determines whether new mail exists in the given mailbox. The number of new messages is defined as the number of messages that have "Recent" status set.

If the mailbox contains no new messages, chkmail will indicate that no new mail is present; otherwise, it will report the number of new messages. In either case, it will also indicate the canonical form of the name of the mailbox.

The -debug flag prints full debugging telemetry including protocol operations. The -verbose flag prints verbose (non-error) telemetry.

The mailbox name argument is a standard c-client mailbox name. A variety of mailbox name formats and types of mailboxes are supported by c-client; examples of the most common forms of names are:

Name
Meaning
INBOX
primary incoming mail folder on the local system
archive/tx-project
mail folder named "tx-project" in "archive" subdirectory of local filesystem home directory
{imapserver.foo.com}INBOX
primary incoming mail folder on IMAP server system "imapserver.foo.com"
{imapserver.foo.com}archive/tx-project
mail folder named "tx-project" in "archive" subdirectory on IMAP server system "imapserver.foo.com"
#news.comp.mail.misc
newsgroup "comp.mail.misc" on local filesystem
{newserver.foo.com/nntp}comp.mail.misc
newsgroup "comp.mail.misc" on NNTP server system "newserver.foo.com"
{popserver.foo.com/pop3}
mail folder on POP3 server system "popserver.foo.com"

See your system manager for more information about the types of mailboxes which are available on your system.

RESTRICTIONS

You must surround a {host}mailbox form mailbox name with quotation marks if you run chkmail from csh(1) or another shell for which braces have special meaning.

AUTHOR

Mark Crispin, MRC@CAC.Washington.EDU

SEE ALSO

imapcopy (1)
mbxcopy (1)
mbxcvt (1)