chkmail(LOCAL)chkmail(LOCAL)NAMEchkmail - check for new mail
SYNTAXchkmail [-debug] [-verbose] mailbox
DESCRIPTIONchkmail 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)
23 October 1996 chkmail(LOCAL)