NEW(1)

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version 1.8 · 4 versions
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✨ NEW(1) ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the new era of your life 💖 this is the General Commands Manual page for a little squad of nmh tools that keep you informed about which folders have fresh mail. Introducing the girlies:

  • new — reports on nmh folders with new messages
  • fnext — sets the current nmh folder to the next folder with new messages
  • fprev — sets the current nmh folder to the previous folder with new messages
  • unseen — scans any new messages in all nmh folders

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

new [-help] [-version] [sequences] [-mode mode] [-folders foldersfile]

fnext is equivalent to new -mode fnext

fprev is equivalent to new -mode fprev

unseen is equivalent to new -mode unseen

the way these four are all just the same girl with a different outfit on?? iconic 👑

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

So new, when it's just vibing in its default mode, produces a one-line-per-folder listing of all folders that contain messages in the specified sequences — or, if you didn't specify any, in the sequence(s) listed in the profile entry Unseen-Sequence. Each line is giving folder name, total number of messages in the specified sequences, and a list of messages derived from the .mh_sequence file. fr fr, here's an example:

foo     11.* 40-50
bar    380.  760-772 824-828
 total    391.

The * on foo is the lil tell that it's the current folder ✨ and that last line? That's the total number of messages in the desired sequences, no cap.

new crawls the folder hierarchy recursively to find all folders, and prints them in lexicographic order. 🦋 Wanna override that behavior? Slay, just provide a foldersfile containing the pre-sorted list of folders which new should check, one per line.

In fnext and fprev modes, new changes to the next or previous matching folder, respectively. Respectively!! We love a symmetrical queen. 🎀

In unseen mode, new executes scan sequences for each matching folder. Go off.

🍓 FILES 🍓

  • $HOME/.mh_profile — The user profile 💜

🧚 PROFILE COMPONENTS 🧚

  • Path: — To determine the user's nmh directory.
  • Current-Folder: — To find the default current folder.
  • Unseen-Sequence: — The name of the unseen message sequence.

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

scan(1), mh-format(5)

ok that's the whole page bestie, go forth and check ur folders 💖

this has been nmh-1.8, dated 2009-01-17 — mwah, no notes, periodt 💅✨

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