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1 ;;; mspools.el --- show mail spools waiting to be read.
2
3 ;; Copyright (C) 1997 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
4
5 ;; Author: Stephen Eglen <stephen@cns.ed.ac.uk>
6 ;; Maintainer: Stephen Eglen <stephen@cns.ed.ac.uk>
7 ;; Created: 22 Jan 1997
8 ;; Keywords: mail
9 ;; location: http://www.cns.ed.ac.uk/people/stephen/emacs/
10
11 ;; This file is part of GNU Emacs.
12
13 ;; GNU Emacs is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
14 ;; it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
15 ;; the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
16 ;; any later version.
17
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22
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24 ;; along with GNU Emacs; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the
25 ;; Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
26 ;; Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
27
28 ;;; Commentary:
29
30 ;; If you use a mail filter (e.g. procmail, filter) to put mail messages in
31 ;; folders, this file will let you see which folders have mail waiting
32 ;; to be read in them. It assumes that new mail for the file `folder'
33 ;; is written by the filter to a file called `folder.spool'. (If the
34 ;; file writes directly to `folder' you may lose mail if new mail
35 ;; arrives whilst you are reading the folder in emacs, hence the use
36 ;; of a spool file.) For example, the following procmail recipe puts
37 ;; any mail with `emacs' in the subject line into the spool file
38 ;; `emacs.spool', ready to go into the folder `emacs'.
39 ;:0:
40 ;* ^Subject.*emacs
41 ;emacs.spool
42
43 ;; It also assumes that all of your spool files and mail folders live
44 ;; in the directory pointed to by `mspools-folder-directory', so you must
45 ;; set this (see Installation).
46
47 ;; When you run `mspools-show', it creates a *spools* buffer containing
48 ;; all of the spools in the folder directory that are waiting to be
49 ;; read. On each line is the spool name and its size in bytes. Move
50 ;; to the line of the folder that you would like to read, and then
51 ;; press return or space. The mailer (VM or RMAIL) should then read
52 ;; that folder and get the new mail for you. When you return to the
53 ;; *spools* buffer, you will either see "*" to indicate that the spool
54 ;; has been read, or the remaining unread spools, depending on the
55 ;; value of `mspools-update'.
56
57 ;; This file should work with both VM and RMAIL. See the variable
58 ;; `mspools-using-vm' for details.
59
60 ;;; Basic installation.
61 ;; (autoload 'mspools-show "mspools" "Show outstanding mail spools." t)
62 ;; (setq mspools-folder-directory "~/MAIL/")
63 ;;
64 ;; If you use VM, mspools-folder-directory will default to vm-folder-directory
65 ;; unless you have already given it a value.
66
67 ;; Extras.
68 ;;
69 ;; (global-set-key '[S-f1] 'mspools-show) ;Bind mspools-show to Shift F1.
70 ;; (setq mspools-update t) ;Automatically update buffer.
71
72 ;; Interface with the mail filter.
73 ;; We assume that the mail filter drops new mail into the spool
74 ;; `folder.spool'. If your spool files are something like folder.xyz
75 ;; for inbox `folder', then do:
76 ;; (setq mspools-suffix "xyz")
77 ;; If you use other conventions for your spool files, this code will
78 ;; need rewriting.
79
80 ;; Warning for VM users
81 ;; Don't use if you are not sure what you are doing. The value of
82 ;; vm-spool-files is altered, so you may not be able to read incoming
83 ;; mail with VM if this is incorrectly set.
84
85 ;; Useful settings for VM
86 ;; vm-auto-get-new-mail should be t (the default).
87
88 ;; Acknowledgements
89 ;; Thanks to jond@mitre.org (Jonathan Doughty) for help with code for
90 ;; setting up vm-spool-files.
91
92 ;;; TODO
93
94 ;; What if users have mail spools in more than one directory? Extend
95 ;; mspools-folder-directory to be a list of directories? Currently,
96 ;; if mail spools are in other directories, the way to read them is to
97 ;; put a symbolic link to the spool into the mspools-folder-directory.
98
99 ;; I was going to add mouse support so that you could click on a line
100 ;; to visit the buffer. Tell me if you want it, and I can put the
101 ;; code in (I don't use the mouse much, so I haven't bothered with it
102 ;; so far).
103
104 ;; Rather than showing size in bytes, could we see the number of msgs
105 ;; waiting? (Could be more time demanding / system dependent).
106 ;; Maybe just call a perl script to do all the hard work, and
107 ;; visualise the results in the buffer.
108
109 ;; Shrink wrap the buffer to remove excess white-space?
110
111 ;;; Code:
112
113 ;;; User Variables
114
115 (defgroup mspools nil
116 "Show mail spools waiting to be read."
117 :group 'mail
118 :link '(emacs-commentary-link :tag "Commentary" "mspools.el")
119 )
120
121 (defcustom mspools-update nil
122 "*Non-nil means update *spools* buffer after visiting any folder."
123 :type 'boolean
124 :group 'mspools)
125
126 (defcustom mspools-suffix "spool"
127 "*Extension used for spool files (not including full stop)."
128 :type 'string
129 :group 'mspools)
130
131 (defcustom mspools-using-vm (fboundp 'vm)
132 "*Non-nil if VM is used as mail reader, otherwise RMAIL is used."
133 :type 'boolean
134 :group 'mspools)
135
136 (defcustom mspools-folder-directory
137 (if (boundp 'vm-folder-directory)
138 vm-folder-directory
139 "~/MAIL/")
140 "*Directory where mail folders are kept. Ensure it has a trailing /.
141 Defaults to `vm-folder-directory' if bound else to ~/MAIL/."
142 :type 'directory
143 :group 'mspools)
144
145 (defcustom mspools-vm-system-mail (getenv "MAIL")
146 "*Spool file for main mailbox. Only used by VM.
147 This needs to be set to your primary mail spool - mspools will not run
148 without it. By default this will be set to the environment variable
149 $MAIL. Otherwise set it to something like /usr/spool/mail/login-name."
150 :type 'file
151 :group 'mspools)
152
153 ;;; Internal Variables
154
155 (defvar mspools-files nil
156 "List of entries (SPOOL . SIZE) giving spool name and file size.")
157
158 (defvar mspools-files-len nil
159 "Length of `mspools-files' list.")
160
161 (defvar mspools-buffer "*spools*"
162 "Name of buffer for displaying spool info.")
163
164 (defvar mspools-mode-map nil
165 "Keymap for the *spools* buffer.")
166
167 ;;; Code
168
169 ;;; VM Specific code
170 (if mspools-using-vm
171 ;; set up vm if not already loaded.
172 (progn
173 (require 'vm-vars)
174 (if (and (not vm-init-file-loaded) (file-readable-p vm-init-file))
175 (load-file vm-init-file))
176 (if (not mspools-folder-directory)
177 (setq mspools-folder-directory vm-folder-directory))
178 ))
179
180 (defun mspools-set-vm-spool-files ()
181 "Set value of `vm-spool-files'. Only needed for VM."
182 (if (null mspools-vm-system-mail)
183 (error "Need to set mspools-vm-system-mail to the spool for primary inbox"))
184 (if (null mspools-folder-directory)
185 (error "Set `mspools-folder-directory' to where the spool files are"))
186 (setq
187 vm-spool-files
188 (append
189 (list
190 ;; Main mailbox
191 (list vm-primary-inbox
192 mspools-vm-system-mail ; your mailbox
193 vm-crash-box ;crash for mailbox
194 ))
195
196 ;; Mailing list inboxes
197 ;; must have VM already loaded to get vm-folder-directory.
198 (mapcar '(lambda (s)
199 "make the appropriate entry for vm-spool-files"
200 (list
201 (concat mspools-folder-directory s)
202 (concat mspools-folder-directory s "." mspools-suffix)
203 (concat mspools-folder-directory s ".crash")))
204 ;; So I create a vm-spool-files entry for each of those mail drops
205 (mapcar 'file-name-sans-extension
206 (directory-files mspools-folder-directory nil
207 (format "^[^.]+\\.%s" mspools-suffix)))
208 ))
209 ))
210
211 ;;; MSPOOLS-SHOW -- the main function
212 (defun mspools-show ( &optional noshow)
213 "Show the list of non-empty spool files in the *spools* buffer.
214 Buffer is not displayed if SHOW is non-nil."
215 (interactive)
216 (if (get-buffer mspools-buffer)
217 ;; buffer exists
218 (progn
219 (set-buffer mspools-buffer)
220 (setq buffer-read-only nil)
221 (delete-region (point-min) (point-max)))
222 ;; else buffer doesn't exist so create it
223 (get-buffer-create mspools-buffer))
224
225 ;; generate the list of spool files
226 (if mspools-using-vm
227 (mspools-set-vm-spool-files))
228
229 (mspools-get-spool-files)
230 (if (not noshow) (pop-to-buffer mspools-buffer))
231
232 (setq buffer-read-only t)
233 (mspools-mode)
234 )
235
236 (defun mspools-visit-spool ()
237 "Visit the folder on the current line of the *spools* buffer."
238 (interactive)
239 (let ( spool-name folder-name)
240 (setq spool-name (mspools-get-spool-name))
241 (if (null spool-name)
242 (message "No spool on current line")
243
244 (setq folder-name (mspools-get-folder-from-spool spool-name))
245
246 ;; put in a little "*" to indicate spool file has been read.
247 (if (not mspools-update)
248 (save-excursion
249 (setq buffer-read-only nil)
250 (beginning-of-line)
251 (insert "*")
252 (delete-char 1)
253 (setq buffer-read-only t)
254 ))
255
256 (message "folder %s spool %s" folder-name spool-name)
257 (if (eq (count-lines (point-min)
258 (save-excursion
259 (end-of-line)
260 (point)))
261 mspools-files-len)
262 (next-line (- 1 mspools-files-len)) ;back to top of list
263 ;; else just on to next line
264 (next-line 1))
265
266 ;; Choose whether to use VM or RMAIL for reading folder.
267 (if mspools-using-vm
268 (vm-visit-folder (concat mspools-folder-directory folder-name))
269 ;; else using RMAIL
270 (rmail (concat mspools-folder-directory folder-name))
271 (setq rmail-inbox-list
272 (list (concat mspools-folder-directory spool-name)))
273 (rmail-get-new-mail))
274
275
276 (if mspools-update
277 ;; generate new list of spools.
278 (save-excursion
279 (mspools-show-again 'noshow))))))
280
281 (defun mspools-get-folder-from-spool (name)
282 "Return folder name corresponding to the spool file NAME."
283 ;; Simply strip of the extension.
284 (file-name-sans-extension name))
285
286 ;; Alternative version if you have more complicated mapping of spool name
287 ;; to file name.
288 ;(defun get-folder-from-spool-safe (name)
289 ; "Return the folder name corresponding to the spool file NAME."
290 ; (if (string-match "^\\(.*\\)\.spool$" name)
291 ; (substring name (match-beginning 1) (match-end 1))
292 ; (error "Could not extract folder name from spool name %s" name)))
293
294 ; test
295 ;(mspools-get-folder-from-spool "happy.spool")
296 ;(mspools-get-folder-from-spool "happy.sp")
297
298 (defun mspools-get-spool-name ()
299 "Return the name of the spool on the current line."
300 (let ((line-num (1- (count-lines (point-min)
301 (save-excursion
302 (end-of-line)
303 (point))
304 ))))
305 (car (nth line-num mspools-files))))
306
307 ;;; Keymap
308
309 (if mspools-mode-map
310 ()
311 (setq mspools-mode-map (make-sparse-keymap))
312
313 (define-key mspools-mode-map "\C-c\C-c" 'mspools-visit-spool)
314 (define-key mspools-mode-map "\C-m" 'mspools-visit-spool)
315 (define-key mspools-mode-map " " 'mspools-visit-spool)
316 (define-key mspools-mode-map "?" 'mspools-help)
317 (define-key mspools-mode-map "q" 'mspools-quit)
318 (define-key mspools-mode-map "n" 'next-line)
319 (define-key mspools-mode-map "p" 'previous-line)
320 (define-key mspools-mode-map "g" 'revert-buffer))
321
322 ;;; Spools mode functions
323
324 (defun mspools-revert-buffer (ignore noconfirm)
325 "Re-run mspools-show to revert the *spools* buffer."
326 (mspools-show 'noshow))
327
328 (defun mspools-show-again (&optional noshow)
329 "Update the *spools* buffer. This is useful if mspools-update is
330 nil."
331 (interactive)
332 (mspools-show noshow))
333
334 (defun mspools-help ()
335 "Show help for `mspools-mode'."
336 (interactive)
337 (describe-function 'mspools-mode))
338
339 (defun mspools-quit ()
340 "Quit the *spools* buffer."
341 (interactive)
342 (kill-buffer mspools-buffer))
343
344 (defun mspools-mode ()
345 "Major mode for output from mspools-show.
346 \\<mspools-mode-map>Move point to one of the items in this buffer, then use
347 \\[mspools-visit-spool] to go to the spool that the current line refers to.
348 \\[revert-buffer] to regenerate the list of spools.
349 \\{mspools-mode-map}"
350 (kill-all-local-variables)
351 (make-local-variable 'revert-buffer-function)
352 (setq revert-buffer-function 'mspools-revert-buffer)
353 (use-local-map mspools-mode-map)
354 (setq major-mode 'mspools-mode)
355 (setq mode-name "MSpools")
356 )
357
358 (defun mspools-get-spool-files ()
359 "Find the list of spool files and display them in *spools* buffer."
360 (let (folders head spool len beg end any)
361 (if (null mspools-folder-directory)
362 (error "Set `mspools-folder-directory' to where the spool files are"))
363 (setq folders (directory-files mspools-folder-directory nil
364 (format "^[^.]+\\.%s$" mspools-suffix)))
365 (setq folders (mapcar 'mspools-size-folder folders))
366 (setq folders (delq nil folders))
367 (setq mspools-files folders)
368 (setq mspools-files-len (length mspools-files))
369 (set-buffer mspools-buffer)
370 (while folders
371 (setq any t)
372 (setq head (car folders))
373 (setq spool (car head))
374 (setq len (cdr head))
375 (setq folders (cdr folders))
376 (setq beg (point))
377 (insert (format " %10d %s" len spool))
378 (setq end (point))
379 (insert "\n")
380 ;;(put-text-property beg end 'mouse-face 'highlight)
381 )
382 (if any
383 (delete-char -1)) ;delete last RET
384 (goto-char (point-min))
385 ))
386
387 (defun mspools-size-folder (spool)
388 "Return (SPOOL . SIZE ) iff SIZE of spool file is non-zero."
389 ;; 7th file attribute is the size of the file in bytes.
390 (let ((file (concat mspools-folder-directory spool))
391 size)
392 (setq file (or (file-symlink-p file) file))
393 (setq size (nth 7 (file-attributes file)))
394 ;; size could be nil if the sym-link points to a non-existent file
395 ;; so check this first.
396 (if (and size (> size 0))
397 (cons spool size)
398 ;; else SPOOL is empty
399 nil)))
400
401 (provide 'mspools)
402 ;;; mspools.el ends here
403