#! /bin/sh # xbiffpop --- query pop server for xbiff new-mail notification # Copyright (C) 1996, 1999 Noah S. Friedman # Author: Noah Friedman # Created: 1996-10-18 # $Id: xbiffpop,v 1.4 1999/05/25 04:49:50 friedman Exp $ # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by # the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) # any later version. # # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the # GNU General Public License for more details. # # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License # along with this program; if not, you can either send email to this # program's maintainer or write to: The Free Software Foundation, # Inc.; 59 Temple Place, Suite 330; Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. # Commentary: # To use this program, invoke in the background; it will launch xbiff for you. # Requires my `from' program, which knows how to query pop servers. # Code: # If set, running under xbiff. Just check for mail. case "${XBIFFPOPSTATE+set}" in set ) oldsize=`${XRDB-xrdb} -screen -query \ | sed -n \ -e "/^$XBIFFPOPSTATE.mailcount:/!d" \ -e 's/^.*:[ ]*//' \ -e p` newsize=`${FROM-from} -C` case "$XBIFFPOPDATE" in date ) stamp=`date '+%s'` ;; perl ) stamp=`${PERL-perl} -e 'print time'` ;; esac { echo "$XBIFFPOPSTATE.mailcount: $newsize" echo "$XBIFFPOPSTATE.timestamp: $stamp" } | ${XRDB-xrdb} -screen -merge -nocpp # exit status: # 0 = there is new mail # 1 = no change in size # 2 = mail has been cleared case "$newsize" in '' ) exit 1 ;; 0 ) exit 2 ;; "$oldsize" ) exit 1 ;; * ) exit 0 ;; esac ;; esac # Launching a new xbiff process. # Name by which this script was invoked. progname=`echo "$0" | sed -e 's/[^\/]*\///g'` XBIFFPOPSTATE="xbiffpop.state.$$" export XBIFFPOPSTATE # Use `date' if possible because that's faster. XBIFFPOPDATE= stamp=`(date '+%s' | sed -e 's/^[0-9]*$/t/') 2> /dev/null` case "$stamp" in t ) XBIFFPOPDATE=date ;; * ) # Tack on a newline after the timestamp, because some versions of # sed will throw away the last line of input if it has no newline. # We don't need this above because the output of perl is assigned # to a variable first. stamp=`(${PERL-perl} -e 'print time . "\n"' \ | sed -e 's/^[0-9]*$/t/') 2> /dev/null` case "$stamp" in t ) XBIFFPOPDATE=perl ;; esac ;; esac export XBIFFPOPDATE # Garbage collect old xbiffpop resources which haven't been updated for # at least an hour. if (${PERL-perl} -v) > /dev/null 2>&1 ; then ${XRDB-xrdb} -screen -query \ | ${PERL-perl} -e ' while (<>) { if ($_ !~ /^xbiffpop.state.[0-9]*/o) { print $_; next; } chop $_; ($key, $val) = split (/:[ \t]/o, $_, 2); $ent{$key} = $val; if ($key =~ /\.timestamp$/o && (time - $val > 3600)) { $key =~ s/\.timestamp$//o; $ign{"${key}.mailcount"} = $ign{"${key}.timestamp"} = 1; } } foreach $key (keys (%ign)) { delete $ent{$key}; } foreach $key (keys (%ent)) { print "$key: $ent{$key}\n"; } ' \ | ${XRDB-xrdb} -screen -load -nocpp fi exec ${XBIFF-xbiff} -xrm "xbiff*checkCommand: $progname" ${1+"$@"} # eof