NAME
chkmail - check for new mail
SYNTAX
chkmail [-debug] [-verbose] mailbox
DESCRIPTION
chkmail 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, [email protected]
SEE ALSO
imapcopy (1)
mbxcopy (1)
mbxcvt (1)