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Comment on Mark As Read with maildrop by Tony

Tony — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 12:22:04 +0000

This all didnt work for me, I got stuck that the variables all contained the full pathname of the mail, and I could now break it in pieces with awk, because the backticks were already used.
this is what works for me:
MAILDIR=”/home/username/Maildir”
cc “${MAILDIR}/.Spam/”
`for x in ls ${MAILDIR}/.Spam/new/* ; do mv $x $x:2,S ; done`
to “/dev/null”

Comment on Mark As Read with maildrop by Richard Kolkovich

Richard Kolkovich — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 14:41:50 +0000

Bill,
Good point. vim syntax highlighting sometimes spoils me, as the highlighting when using backticks is fairly easy to read. I agree that $(cmd) is a bit easier on the eyes in general, though. Cheers!

Comment on Mark As Read with maildrop by band.myopenid.com

band.myopenid.com — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 21:13:41 +0000

One style suggestion for shell scripts that might mitigate missing the hard to read backticks “`”. In bash and, I think, the usual /bin/sh available on BSD systems, opening and closing backticks can be replaced by “$(” and “)”, respectively. For example:
$ echo `date`
can be written
$ echo $(date)
I find the parenthesis syntax easier to read, and it is kind of Lisp-like (and I like that).
Bill

Comment on Sadism: the order of the day at Disney by Vin

Vin — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 15:02:32 +0000

You don’t want the CD version, trust me. I just got it in the mail from Amazon.co.uk and i threw it in my computer (i like to listen to music while i work).
The damn thing simply will not play.
I swaped the disk for another audio CD and everything is peachy, i put the Tron Legacy OST back and there’s only silence.
As an experiment i tried to rip a track just to make sure the DRM was screwing things up for me. I got an error, as expected.
This thing is going back to Amazon today and you can bet i’ll shout from the rooftops (and every forum i can find) to let everyone know how paying costumers are treated by Disney.

Comment on Mark As Read with maildrop by survietamine

survietamine — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 10:13:40 +0000

hi, I recommend to remove ls from the loop, it is useless and bad.

Comment on Sadism: the order of the day at Disney by Carl Cravens

Carl Cravens — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 18:33:59 +0000

Wow. I knew that Amazon MP3 and iTunes had different pieces, but didn’t know there were even more tracks. Wonder how Daft Punk feel about this.
This is the kind of thing that worries me when it comes to Net Neutrality, that businesses see limited and exclusive access to content as a *good* thing. But it’s not good for the consumer, it’s only good for the businesses. And I like to think that making money at the expense of consumer good-will is ultimately going to be bad for business.

Comment on Backups with ZFS and Amazon’s S3 by Tory Emmerson

Tory Emmerson — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 21:46:03 +0000

I approve of your blog! Good stuff

Comment on Backups with ZFS and Amazon’s S3 by Esther Kinker

Esther Kinker — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 09:33:37 +0000

Theses types of backups shouldn’t have to be a hassle. A good backup cron will work for years.

Comment on Mark As Read with maildrop by Richard Kolkovich

Richard Kolkovich — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 15:02:43 +0000

Matt,
I believe you could use exit to terminate processing rather than re-routing to /dev/null. I don’t think that multiple maildrops running at once would, in this case, have any problems. ‘mv’ is atomic, so the worst I think that could happen would a subsequent maildrop finding a file with ls only to not be able to move it. Unless you have a HUGE volume of inbound mail OR some large messages, however, I doubt you’d hit this.
Glad the article could help.
Cheers,
Richard

Comment on Mark As Read with maildrop by Matt

Matt — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 04:44:40 +0000

Richard,
Couldn’t you use an “exit” instead of a “to” to terminate processing?
Also, I’m trying to wrap my head around the possibility of multiple maildrops running. I don’t think multiple instances matching that rule would collide, would they? I’m thinking that for extra insurance, you could put that rule in a dotlock or flock expression to prevent any possible collisions.
What do you think?
By the way, I recently found your blog doing some googling for maildrop. I’m looking forward to reading through some of your archives
Regards,
Matt