on_mail
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Synopsis:
on [<modes>]mail [<serial#>] [-|^]<match> { <action> }
Description:
This hook is triggered whenever the client detects that the user has new email locally. It relies on MAIL being non-zero.
Parameters:
| $0 | number of new email messages |
| $1 | total number of email messages in user's mailbox |
Examples:
To keep the new mail message grammatically correct:
on ^mail "*" {
xecho -b You have $0 new message${[$0] > 1 ? [s] : []}, $1 total
}
Other Notes:
This hook has no control over the extended output given when MAIL is set to 2.
on_mail.txt · Last modified: 2006/08/29 16:08 by 127.0.0.1