;;; mspools.el --- show mail spools waiting to be read -*- lexical-binding: t; -*- ;; Copyright (C) 1997, 2001-2024 Free Software Foundation, Inc. ;; Author: Stephen Eglen ;; Created: 22 Jan 1997 ;; Keywords: mail ;; location: http://www.anc.ed.ac.uk/~stephen/emacs/ ;; This file is part of GNU Emacs. ;; GNU Emacs is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify ;; it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by ;; the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or ;; (at your option) any later version. ;; GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, ;; but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of ;; MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the ;; GNU General Public License for more details. ;; You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License ;; along with GNU Emacs. If not, see . ;;; Commentary: ;; If you use a mail filter (e.g. procmail, filter) to put mail messages in ;; folders, this file will let you see which folders have mail waiting ;; to be read in them. It assumes that new mail for the file `folder' ;; is written by the filter to a file called `folder.spool'. (If the ;; file writes directly to `folder' you may lose mail if new mail ;; arrives whilst you are reading the folder in Emacs, hence the use ;; of a spool file.) For example, the following procmail recipe puts ;; any mail with `emacs' in the subject line into the spool file ;; `emacs.spool', ready to go into the folder `emacs'. ;:0: ;* ^Subject.*emacs ;emacs.spool ;; It also assumes that all of your spool files and mail folders live ;; in the directory pointed to by `mspools-folder-directory', so you must ;; set this (see Installation). ;; When you run `mspools-show', it creates a *spools* buffer containing ;; all of the spools in the folder directory that are waiting to be ;; read. On each line is the spool name and its size in bytes. Move ;; to the line of the folder that you would like to read, and then ;; press return or space. The mailer (VM or RMAIL) should then read ;; that folder and get the new mail for you. When you return to the ;; *spools* buffer, you will either see "*" to indicate that the spool ;; has been read, or the remaining unread spools, depending on the ;; value of `mspools-update'. ;; This file should work with both VM and RMAIL. See the variable ;; `mspools-using-vm' for details. ;;; Basic installation. ;; (setq mspools-folder-directory "~/MAIL/") ;; ;; If you use VM, mspools-folder-directory will default to vm-folder-directory ;; unless you have already given it a value. ;; Extras. ;; ;; (global-set-key '[S-f1] 'mspools-show) ;Bind mspools-show to Shift F1. ;; (setq mspools-update t) ;Automatically update buffer. ;; Interface with the mail filter. ;; We assume that the mail filter drops new mail into the spool ;; `folder.spool'. If your spool files are something like folder.xyz ;; for inbox `folder', then do: ;; (setq mspools-suffix "xyz") ;; If you use other conventions for your spool files, this code will ;; need rewriting. ;; Warning for VM users ;; Don't use if you are not sure what you are doing. The value of ;; vm-spool-files is altered, so you may not be able to read incoming ;; mail with VM if this is incorrectly set. ;; Useful settings for VM ;; vm-auto-get-new-mail should be t (the default). ;; Acknowledgments ;; Thanks to jond@mitre.org (Jonathan Doughty) for help with code for ;; setting up vm-spool-files. ;;; TODO ;; What if users have mail spools in more than one directory? Extend ;; mspools-folder-directory to be a list of directories? Currently, ;; if mail spools are in other directories, the way to read them is to ;; put a symbolic link to the spool into the mspools-folder-directory. ;; I was going to add mouse support so that you could click on a line ;; to visit the buffer. Tell me if you want it, and I can put the ;; code in (I don't use the mouse much, so I haven't bothered with it ;; so far). ;; Rather than showing size in bytes, could we see the number of msgs ;; waiting? (Could be more time demanding / system dependent). ;; Maybe just call a perl script to do all the hard work, and ;; visualize the results in the buffer. ;; Shrink wrap the buffer to remove excess white-space? ;;; Code: (defvar rmail-inbox-list) (defvar vm-crash-box) (defvar vm-folder-directory) (defvar vm-init-file) (defvar vm-init-file-loaded) (defvar vm-primary-inbox) (defvar vm-spool-files) ;;; User Variables (defgroup mspools nil "Show mail spools waiting to be read." :group 'mail :link '(emacs-commentary-link :tag "Commentary" "mspools.el") ) (defcustom mspools-update nil "Non-nil means update *spools* buffer after visiting any folder." :type 'boolean) (defcustom mspools-suffix "spool" "Extension used for spool files (not including full stop)." :type 'string) (defcustom mspools-using-vm (fboundp 'vm) "Non-nil if VM is used as mail reader, otherwise RMAIL is used." :type 'boolean) (defcustom mspools-folder-directory (if (boundp 'vm-folder-directory) vm-folder-directory "~/MAIL/") "Directory where mail folders are kept. Ensure it has a trailing /. Defaults to `vm-folder-directory' if bound else to ~/MAIL/." :type 'directory) (defcustom mspools-vm-system-mail (or (getenv "MAIL") (concat rmail-spool-directory (user-login-name))) "Spool file for main mailbox. Only used by VM. This needs to be set to your primary mail spool - mspools will not run without it. By default this will be set to the environment variable $MAIL. Otherwise it will use `rmail-spool-directory' to guess where your primary spool is. If this fails, set it to something like /usr/spool/mail/login-name." :type 'file) ;;; Internal Variables (defvar mspools-files nil "List of entries (SPOOL . SIZE) giving spool name and file size.") (defvar mspools-files-len nil "Length of `mspools-files' list.") (defvar mspools-buffer "*spools*" "Name of buffer for displaying spool info.") (defvar-keymap mspools-mode-map :doc "Keymap for the *spools* buffer." "C-c C-c" #'mspools-visit-spool "RET" #'mspools-visit-spool "SPC" #'mspools-visit-spool "n" #'next-line "p" #'previous-line) ;;; VM Specific code (if mspools-using-vm ;; set up vm if not already loaded. (progn (require 'vm-vars) (if (and (not vm-init-file-loaded) (file-readable-p vm-init-file)) (load-file vm-init-file)) (if (not mspools-folder-directory) (setq mspools-folder-directory vm-folder-directory)) )) (defun mspools-set-vm-spool-files () "Set value of `vm-spool-files'. Only needed for VM." (if (not (file-readable-p mspools-vm-system-mail)) (error "Need to set mspools-vm-system-mail to the spool for primary inbox")) (if (null mspools-folder-directory) (error "Set `mspools-folder-directory' to where the spool files are")) (setq vm-spool-files (append (list ;; Main mailbox (list vm-primary-inbox mspools-vm-system-mail ; your mailbox vm-crash-box ;crash for mailbox )) ;; Mailing list inboxes ;; must have VM already loaded to get vm-folder-directory. (mapcar (lambda (s) "make the appropriate entry for vm-spool-files" (list (concat mspools-folder-directory s) (concat mspools-folder-directory s "." mspools-suffix) (concat mspools-folder-directory s ".crash"))) ;; So I create a vm-spool-files entry for each of those mail drops (mapcar #'file-name-sans-extension (directory-files mspools-folder-directory nil (format "\\`[^.]+\\.%s" mspools-suffix))) )) )) ;;; MSPOOLS-SHOW -- the main function ;;;###autoload (defun mspools-show (&optional noshow) "Show the list of non-empty spool files in the *spools* buffer. Buffer is not displayed if SHOW is non-nil." (interactive) (if (get-buffer mspools-buffer) ;; buffer exists (progn (set-buffer mspools-buffer) (setq buffer-read-only nil) (erase-buffer)) ;; else buffer doesn't exist so create it (get-buffer-create mspools-buffer)) ;; generate the list of spool files (if mspools-using-vm (mspools-set-vm-spool-files)) (mspools-get-spool-files) (if (not noshow) (pop-to-buffer mspools-buffer)) (setq buffer-read-only t) (mspools-mode) ) (declare-function rmail-get-new-mail "rmail" (&optional file-name)) ;; External. (declare-function vm-visit-folder "ext:vm-startup" (folder &optional read-only)) (defun mspools-visit-spool () "Visit the folder on the current line of the *spools* buffer." (interactive) (let ((spool-name (mspools-get-spool-name)) folder-name) (if (null spool-name) (message "No spool on current line") (setq folder-name (mspools-get-folder-from-spool spool-name)) ;; put in a little "*" to indicate spool file has been read. (if (not mspools-update) (save-excursion (beginning-of-line) (let ((inhibit-read-only t)) (insert "*") (delete-char 1)))) (message "folder %s spool %s" folder-name spool-name) (forward-line (if (eq (count-lines (point-min) (line-end-position)) mspools-files-len) ;; FIXME: Why use `mspools-files-len' instead ;; of looking if we're on the last line and ;; jumping to the first one if so? (- 1 mspools-files-len) ;back to top of list ;; else just on to next line 1)) ;; Choose whether to use VM or RMAIL for reading folder. (if mspools-using-vm (vm-visit-folder (concat mspools-folder-directory folder-name)) ;; else using RMAIL (rmail (concat mspools-folder-directory folder-name)) (setq rmail-inbox-list (list (concat mspools-folder-directory spool-name))) (rmail-get-new-mail)) (if mspools-update ;; generate new list of spools. (save-excursion ;;FIXME: Why? (mspools-revert-buffer)))))) (defun mspools-get-folder-from-spool (name) "Return folder name corresponding to the spool file NAME." ;; Simply strip of the extension. (file-name-sans-extension name)) ;; Alternative version if you have more complicated mapping of spool name ;; to file name. ;(defun get-folder-from-spool-safe (name) ; "Return the folder name corresponding to the spool file NAME." ; (if (string-match "^\\(.*\\)\\.spool$" name) ; (substring name (match-beginning 1) (match-end 1)) ; (error "Could not extract folder name from spool name %s" name))) ; test ;(mspools-get-folder-from-spool "happy.spool") ;(mspools-get-folder-from-spool "happy.sp") (defun mspools-get-spool-name () "Return the name of the spool on the current line." (let ((line-num (1- (count-lines (point-min) (line-end-position))))) ;; FIXME: Why not extract the name directly from the current line's text? (car (nth line-num mspools-files)))) ;;; Spools mode functions (defun mspools-revert-buffer (&optional _ignore _noconfirm) "Re-run `mspools-show' to revert the *spools* buffer." (mspools-show 'noshow)) (defun mspools-show-again (&optional noshow) "Update the *spools* buffer. This is useful if `mspools-update' is nil." (declare (obsolete revert-buffer "28.1")) (interactive) (mspools-show noshow)) (defun mspools-help () "Show help for `mspools-mode'." (declare (obsolete describe-mode "28.1")) (interactive) (describe-function 'mspools-mode)) (defun mspools-quit () "Quit the *spools* buffer." (declare (obsolete quit-window "28.1")) (interactive) (kill-buffer mspools-buffer)) (define-derived-mode mspools-mode special-mode "MSpools" "Major mode for output from `mspools-show'. \\Move point to one of the items in this buffer, then use \\[mspools-visit-spool] to go to the spool that the current line refers to. \\[revert-buffer] to regenerate the list of spools. \\{mspools-mode-map}" (setq-local revert-buffer-function 'mspools-revert-buffer)) (defun mspools-get-spool-files () "Find the list of spool files and display them in *spools* buffer." (if (null mspools-folder-directory) (error "Set `mspools-folder-directory' to where the spool files are")) (let* ((folders (directory-files mspools-folder-directory nil (format "\\`[^.]+\\.%s\\'" mspools-suffix))) (folders (delq nil (mapcar #'mspools-size-folder folders))) ;; beg end ) (setq mspools-files folders) (setq mspools-files-len (length mspools-files)) (with-current-buffer mspools-buffer (pcase-dolist (`(,spool . ,len) folders) ;; (setq beg (point)) (insert (format " %10d %s" len spool)) ;; (setq end (point)) (insert "\n") ;;(put-text-property beg end 'mouse-face 'highlight) ) (if (not (bolp)) (delete-char -1)) ;delete last RET (goto-char (point-min))))) (defun mspools-size-folder (spool) "Return (SPOOL . SIZE ), if SIZE of spool file is non-zero." ;; 7th file attribute is the size of the file in bytes. (let ((file (concat mspools-folder-directory spool)) size) (setq file (or (file-symlink-p file) file)) (setq size (file-attribute-size (file-attributes file))) ;; size could be nil if the sym-link points to a non-existent file ;; so check this first. (if (and size (> size 0)) (cons spool size) ;; else SPOOL is empty nil))) (provide 'mspools) ;;; mspools.el ends here