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[Peter Abrahamsen]

On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 02:42:57PM -0800, martine at cs.washington.edu wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 02:41:18PM -0800, Michael J. Lu wrote:
> > For a commandline utility, I'm looking for something that will scan 
> > through my mailboxes (/var/spool/mail/$USER and $HOME/mail) and return a 
> > listing of unread messages (From, subject, and date). 
> 
> Oh, I just saw a program like that hit Debian in the last month...
> I can't remember the name, though. :(

Not sure this is quite what Michael was looking for, or what you were
thinking of, but I found this in the Nov 5 DWN:
 * lsmbox -- List number of total/unread messages for mailboxes.

Peter

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