Cronic – A cure for Cron’s chronic email problem
Cronic is a shell script to help control the most annoying feature of cron: unwanted emailed output, or “cram” (cron spam).
Archive of posts tagged mail
Negative lookahead assertion rule in procmail
Say in procmail you want a rule that puts subjects like: “Sale Alert: Howies” (or anything other than Howies) in your inbox but not “Sale Alert: Banana Republic” You can do this with a negative lookahead assertion like so: :0: * ^Subject: (You have sale alerts|Sale Alert):? *(?!Banana) $DEFAULT
Commandline IMAP Mail check & Screen
I wanted a commandline IMAP mailbox checker so I wrote one: imapchkr Normal output for this is as below: ➜ ~ [jamespo: 0/190] [gmail: 0/80] But I decided I wanted to embed it in my GNU screen hardstatus so expanded it to offer a short output option (imapchkr -s). See bottom left corner for output. …
Scanning your Gmail with SpamAssassin
I’ve noticed more spam emails get into my Gmail INBOX lately, so decided to scan it with SpamAssassin. The Perl commandline script (gmail-spamassassin) I wrote to do this can be downloaded from GitHub. I also subclassed Net::IMAP::Simple to support Gmail’s IMAP extensions, so you’ll need Gmail.pm from the repository too. I intend to release Net::IMAP::Simple::Gmail …
Gmail favicon with new mail count
I really like this new Google Labs feature in GMail: As the title suggests, it turns the favicon into biff!