1 ;;; mspools.el --- show mail spools waiting to be read
3 ;; Copyright (C) 1997, 2001-2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
5 ;; Author: Stephen Eglen <stephen@gnu.org>
6 ;; Maintainer: Stephen Eglen <stephen@gnu.org>
7 ;; Created: 22 Jan 1997
9 ;; location: http://www.anc.ed.ac.uk/~stephen/emacs/
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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'.
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.
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
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).
87 ;; Thanks to jond@mitre.org (Jonathan Doughty) for help with code for
88 ;; setting up vm-spool-files.
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
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?
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
)
121 (defgroup mspools nil
122 "Show mail spools waiting to be read."
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."
132 (defcustom mspools-suffix
"spool"
133 "Extension used for spool files (not including full stop)."
137 (defcustom mspools-using-vm
(fboundp 'vm
)
138 "Non-nil if VM is used as mail reader, otherwise RMAIL is used."
142 (defcustom mspools-folder-directory
143 (if (boundp 'vm-folder-directory
)
146 "Directory where mail folders are kept. Ensure it has a trailing /.
147 Defaults to `vm-folder-directory' if bound else to ~/MAIL/."
151 (defcustom mspools-vm-system-mail
(or (getenv "MAIL")
152 (concat rmail-spool-directory
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."
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
)
185 "Keymap for the *spools* buffer.")
191 ;; set up vm if not already loaded.
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"))
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.
219 "make the appropriate entry for vm-spool-files"
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."
236 (if (get-buffer mspools-buffer
)
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
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
)
256 (declare-function rmail-get-new-mail
"rmail" (&optional file-name
))
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."
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
)
274 (setq buffer-read-only nil
)
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))
284 (forward-line (- 1 mspools-files-len
)) ;back to top of list
285 ;; else just on to next line
288 ;; Choose whether to use VM or RMAIL for reading folder.
290 (vm-visit-folder (concat mspools-folder-directory folder-name
))
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))
299 ;; generate new list of spools.
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
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)))
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
335 (mspools-show noshow
))
337 (defun mspools-help ()
338 "Show help for `mspools-mode'."
340 (describe-function 'mspools-mode
))
342 (defun mspools-quit ()
343 "Quit the *spools* buffer."
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
)
369 (setq head
(car folders
))
370 (setq spool
(car head
))
371 (setq len
(cdr head
))
372 (setq folders
(cdr folders
))
374 (insert (format " %10d %s" len spool
))
377 ;;(put-text-property beg end 'mouse-face 'highlight)
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
))
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))
395 ;; else SPOOL is empty
400 ;;; mspools.el ends here