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1 ;;; mspools.el --- show mail spools waiting to be read
3 ;; Copyright (C) 1997, 2001-2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
5 ;; Author: Stephen Eglen <stephen@gnu.org>
6 ;; Maintainer: Stephen Eglen <stephen@gnu.org>
7 ;; Created: 22 Jan 1997
8 ;; Keywords: mail
9 ;; location: http://www.anc.ed.ac.uk/~stephen/emacs/
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24 ;; along with GNU Emacs. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
26 ;;; Commentary:
28 ;; If you use a mail filter (e.g. procmail, filter) to put mail messages in
29 ;; folders, this file will let you see which folders have mail waiting
30 ;; to be read in them. It assumes that new mail for the file `folder'
31 ;; is written by the filter to a file called `folder.spool'. (If the
32 ;; file writes directly to `folder' you may lose mail if new mail
33 ;; arrives whilst you are reading the folder in emacs, hence the use
34 ;; of a spool file.) For example, the following procmail recipe puts
35 ;; any mail with `emacs' in the subject line into the spool file
36 ;; `emacs.spool', ready to go into the folder `emacs'.
37 ;:0:
38 ;* ^Subject.*emacs
39 ;emacs.spool
41 ;; It also assumes that all of your spool files and mail folders live
42 ;; in the directory pointed to by `mspools-folder-directory', so you must
43 ;; set this (see Installation).
45 ;; When you run `mspools-show', it creates a *spools* buffer containing
46 ;; all of the spools in the folder directory that are waiting to be
47 ;; read. On each line is the spool name and its size in bytes. Move
48 ;; to the line of the folder that you would like to read, and then
49 ;; press return or space. The mailer (VM or RMAIL) should then read
50 ;; that folder and get the new mail for you. When you return to the
51 ;; *spools* buffer, you will either see "*" to indicate that the spool
52 ;; has been read, or the remaining unread spools, depending on the
53 ;; value of `mspools-update'.
55 ;; This file should work with both VM and RMAIL. See the variable
56 ;; `mspools-using-vm' for details.
58 ;;; Basic installation.
59 ;; (autoload 'mspools-show "mspools" "Show outstanding mail spools." t)
60 ;; (setq mspools-folder-directory "~/MAIL/")
62 ;; If you use VM, mspools-folder-directory will default to vm-folder-directory
63 ;; unless you have already given it a value.
65 ;; Extras.
67 ;; (global-set-key '[S-f1] 'mspools-show) ;Bind mspools-show to Shift F1.
68 ;; (setq mspools-update t) ;Automatically update buffer.
70 ;; Interface with the mail filter.
71 ;; We assume that the mail filter drops new mail into the spool
72 ;; `folder.spool'. If your spool files are something like folder.xyz
73 ;; for inbox `folder', then do:
74 ;; (setq mspools-suffix "xyz")
75 ;; If you use other conventions for your spool files, this code will
76 ;; need rewriting.
78 ;; Warning for VM users
79 ;; Don't use if you are not sure what you are doing. The value of
80 ;; vm-spool-files is altered, so you may not be able to read incoming
81 ;; mail with VM if this is incorrectly set.
83 ;; Useful settings for VM
84 ;; vm-auto-get-new-mail should be t (the default).
86 ;; Acknowledgments
87 ;; Thanks to jond@mitre.org (Jonathan Doughty) for help with code for
88 ;; setting up vm-spool-files.
90 ;;; TODO
92 ;; What if users have mail spools in more than one directory? Extend
93 ;; mspools-folder-directory to be a list of directories? Currently,
94 ;; if mail spools are in other directories, the way to read them is to
95 ;; put a symbolic link to the spool into the mspools-folder-directory.
97 ;; I was going to add mouse support so that you could click on a line
98 ;; to visit the buffer. Tell me if you want it, and I can put the
99 ;; code in (I don't use the mouse much, so I haven't bothered with it
100 ;; so far).
102 ;; Rather than showing size in bytes, could we see the number of msgs
103 ;; waiting? (Could be more time demanding / system dependent).
104 ;; Maybe just call a perl script to do all the hard work, and
105 ;; visualize the results in the buffer.
107 ;; Shrink wrap the buffer to remove excess white-space?
109 ;;; Code:
111 (defvar rmail-inbox-list)
112 (defvar vm-crash-box)
113 (defvar vm-folder-directory)
114 (defvar vm-init-file)
115 (defvar vm-init-file-loaded)
116 (defvar vm-primary-inbox)
117 (defvar vm-spool-files)
119 ;;; User Variables
121 (defgroup mspools nil
122 "Show mail spools waiting to be read."
123 :group 'mail
124 :link '(emacs-commentary-link :tag "Commentary" "mspools.el")
127 (defcustom mspools-update nil
128 "Non-nil means update *spools* buffer after visiting any folder."
129 :type 'boolean
130 :group 'mspools)
132 (defcustom mspools-suffix "spool"
133 "Extension used for spool files (not including full stop)."
134 :type 'string
135 :group 'mspools)
137 (defcustom mspools-using-vm (fboundp 'vm)
138 "Non-nil if VM is used as mail reader, otherwise RMAIL is used."
139 :type 'boolean
140 :group 'mspools)
142 (defcustom mspools-folder-directory
143 (if (boundp 'vm-folder-directory)
144 vm-folder-directory
145 "~/MAIL/")
146 "Directory where mail folders are kept. Ensure it has a trailing /.
147 Defaults to `vm-folder-directory' if bound else to ~/MAIL/."
148 :type 'directory
149 :group 'mspools)
151 (defcustom mspools-vm-system-mail (or (getenv "MAIL")
152 (concat rmail-spool-directory
153 (user-login-name)))
154 "Spool file for main mailbox. Only used by VM.
155 This needs to be set to your primary mail spool - mspools will not run
156 without it. By default this will be set to the environment variable
157 $MAIL. Otherwise it will use `rmail-spool-directory' to guess where
158 your primary spool is. If this fails, set it to something like
159 /usr/spool/mail/login-name."
160 :type 'file
161 :group 'mspools)
163 ;;; Internal Variables
165 (defvar mspools-files nil
166 "List of entries (SPOOL . SIZE) giving spool name and file size.")
168 (defvar mspools-files-len nil
169 "Length of `mspools-files' list.")
171 (defvar mspools-buffer "*spools*"
172 "Name of buffer for displaying spool info.")
174 (defvar mspools-mode-map
175 (let ((map (make-sparse-keymap)))
176 (define-key map "\C-c\C-c" 'mspools-visit-spool)
177 (define-key map "\C-m" 'mspools-visit-spool)
178 (define-key map " " 'mspools-visit-spool)
179 (define-key map "?" 'mspools-help)
180 (define-key map "q" 'mspools-quit)
181 (define-key map "n" 'next-line)
182 (define-key map "p" 'previous-line)
183 (define-key map "g" 'revert-buffer)
184 map)
185 "Keymap for the *spools* buffer.")
187 ;;; Code
189 ;;; VM Specific code
190 (if mspools-using-vm
191 ;; set up vm if not already loaded.
192 (progn
193 (require 'vm-vars)
194 (if (and (not vm-init-file-loaded) (file-readable-p vm-init-file))
195 (load-file vm-init-file))
196 (if (not mspools-folder-directory)
197 (setq mspools-folder-directory vm-folder-directory))
200 (defun mspools-set-vm-spool-files ()
201 "Set value of `vm-spool-files'. Only needed for VM."
202 (if (not (file-readable-p mspools-vm-system-mail))
203 (error "Need to set mspools-vm-system-mail to the spool for primary inbox"))
204 (if (null mspools-folder-directory)
205 (error "Set `mspools-folder-directory' to where the spool files are"))
206 (setq
207 vm-spool-files
208 (append
209 (list
210 ;; Main mailbox
211 (list vm-primary-inbox
212 mspools-vm-system-mail ; your mailbox
213 vm-crash-box ;crash for mailbox
216 ;; Mailing list inboxes
217 ;; must have VM already loaded to get vm-folder-directory.
218 (mapcar (lambda (s)
219 "make the appropriate entry for vm-spool-files"
220 (list
221 (concat mspools-folder-directory s)
222 (concat mspools-folder-directory s "." mspools-suffix)
223 (concat mspools-folder-directory s ".crash")))
224 ;; So I create a vm-spool-files entry for each of those mail drops
225 (mapcar 'file-name-sans-extension
226 (directory-files mspools-folder-directory nil
227 (format "^[^.]+\\.%s" mspools-suffix)))
231 ;;; MSPOOLS-SHOW -- the main function
232 (defun mspools-show ( &optional noshow)
233 "Show the list of non-empty spool files in the *spools* buffer.
234 Buffer is not displayed if SHOW is non-nil."
235 (interactive)
236 (if (get-buffer mspools-buffer)
237 ;; buffer exists
238 (progn
239 (set-buffer mspools-buffer)
240 (setq buffer-read-only nil)
241 (delete-region (point-min) (point-max)))
242 ;; else buffer doesn't exist so create it
243 (get-buffer-create mspools-buffer))
245 ;; generate the list of spool files
246 (if mspools-using-vm
247 (mspools-set-vm-spool-files))
249 (mspools-get-spool-files)
250 (if (not noshow) (pop-to-buffer mspools-buffer))
252 (setq buffer-read-only t)
253 (mspools-mode)
256 (declare-function rmail-get-new-mail "rmail" (&optional file-name))
258 ;; External.
259 (declare-function vm-visit-folder "ext:vm-startup" (folder &optional read-only))
261 (defun mspools-visit-spool ()
262 "Visit the folder on the current line of the *spools* buffer."
263 (interactive)
264 (let ( spool-name folder-name)
265 (setq spool-name (mspools-get-spool-name))
266 (if (null spool-name)
267 (message "No spool on current line")
269 (setq folder-name (mspools-get-folder-from-spool spool-name))
271 ;; put in a little "*" to indicate spool file has been read.
272 (if (not mspools-update)
273 (save-excursion
274 (setq buffer-read-only nil)
275 (beginning-of-line)
276 (insert "*")
277 (delete-char 1)
278 (setq buffer-read-only t)
281 (message "folder %s spool %s" folder-name spool-name)
282 (if (eq (count-lines (point-min) (point-at-eol))
283 mspools-files-len)
284 (forward-line (- 1 mspools-files-len)) ;back to top of list
285 ;; else just on to next line
286 (forward-line 1))
288 ;; Choose whether to use VM or RMAIL for reading folder.
289 (if mspools-using-vm
290 (vm-visit-folder (concat mspools-folder-directory folder-name))
291 ;; else using RMAIL
292 (rmail (concat mspools-folder-directory folder-name))
293 (setq rmail-inbox-list
294 (list (concat mspools-folder-directory spool-name)))
295 (rmail-get-new-mail))
298 (if mspools-update
299 ;; generate new list of spools.
300 (save-excursion
301 (mspools-show-again 'noshow))))))
303 (defun mspools-get-folder-from-spool (name)
304 "Return folder name corresponding to the spool file NAME."
305 ;; Simply strip of the extension.
306 (file-name-sans-extension name))
308 ;; Alternative version if you have more complicated mapping of spool name
309 ;; to file name.
310 ;(defun get-folder-from-spool-safe (name)
311 ; "Return the folder name corresponding to the spool file NAME."
312 ; (if (string-match "^\\(.*\\)\.spool$" name)
313 ; (substring name (match-beginning 1) (match-end 1))
314 ; (error "Could not extract folder name from spool name %s" name)))
316 ; test
317 ;(mspools-get-folder-from-spool "happy.spool")
318 ;(mspools-get-folder-from-spool "happy.sp")
320 (defun mspools-get-spool-name ()
321 "Return the name of the spool on the current line."
322 (let ((line-num (1- (count-lines (point-min) (point-at-eol)))))
323 (car (nth line-num mspools-files))))
325 ;;; Spools mode functions
327 (defun mspools-revert-buffer (ignore noconfirm)
328 "Re-run mspools-show to revert the *spools* buffer."
329 (mspools-show 'noshow))
331 (defun mspools-show-again (&optional noshow)
332 "Update the *spools* buffer. This is useful if mspools-update is
333 nil."
334 (interactive)
335 (mspools-show noshow))
337 (defun mspools-help ()
338 "Show help for `mspools-mode'."
339 (interactive)
340 (describe-function 'mspools-mode))
342 (defun mspools-quit ()
343 "Quit the *spools* buffer."
344 (interactive)
345 (kill-buffer mspools-buffer))
347 (define-derived-mode mspools-mode special-mode "MSpools"
348 "Major mode for output from mspools-show.
349 \\<mspools-mode-map>Move point to one of the items in this buffer, then use
350 \\[mspools-visit-spool] to go to the spool that the current line refers to.
351 \\[revert-buffer] to regenerate the list of spools.
352 \\{mspools-mode-map}"
353 (setq-local revert-buffer-function 'mspools-revert-buffer))
355 (defun mspools-get-spool-files ()
356 "Find the list of spool files and display them in *spools* buffer."
357 (let (folders head spool len beg end any)
358 (if (null mspools-folder-directory)
359 (error "Set `mspools-folder-directory' to where the spool files are"))
360 (setq folders (directory-files mspools-folder-directory nil
361 (format "^[^.]+\\.%s$" mspools-suffix)))
362 (setq folders (mapcar 'mspools-size-folder folders))
363 (setq folders (delq nil folders))
364 (setq mspools-files folders)
365 (setq mspools-files-len (length mspools-files))
366 (set-buffer mspools-buffer)
367 (while folders
368 (setq any t)
369 (setq head (car folders))
370 (setq spool (car head))
371 (setq len (cdr head))
372 (setq folders (cdr folders))
373 (setq beg (point))
374 (insert (format " %10d %s" len spool))
375 (setq end (point))
376 (insert "\n")
377 ;;(put-text-property beg end 'mouse-face 'highlight)
379 (if any
380 (delete-char -1)) ;delete last RET
381 (goto-char (point-min))
384 (defun mspools-size-folder (spool)
385 "Return (SPOOL . SIZE ), if SIZE of spool file is non-zero."
386 ;; 7th file attribute is the size of the file in bytes.
387 (let ((file (concat mspools-folder-directory spool))
388 size)
389 (setq file (or (file-symlink-p file) file))
390 (setq size (nth 7 (file-attributes file)))
391 ;; size could be nil if the sym-link points to a non-existent file
392 ;; so check this first.
393 (if (and size (> size 0))
394 (cons spool size)
395 ;; else SPOOL is empty
396 nil)))
398 (provide 'mspools)
400 ;;; mspools.el ends here