Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: lee <lee@××××××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: mailer "module" for 'eselect news' (Re: [gentoo-user] from Firefox52: NO pure ALSA?,
Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2016 00:39:17
Message-Id: 8760m3r2l9.fsf@heimdali.yagibdah.de
In Reply to: Re: mailer "module" for 'eselect news' (Re: [gentoo-user] from Firefox52: NO pure ALSA?, WAS: Firefox 49.0 & Youtube... Audio: No) by Neil Bothwick
1 Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> writes:
2
3 > On Wed, 28 Dec 2016 17:20:50 +0100, lee wrote:
4 >
5 >> > #!/bin/sh
6 >> >
7 >> > if [ $( eselect news count new ) != "0" ]; then
8 >> > eselect news list | mail you@××××××××××××.are
9 >> > fi
10 >>
11 >> Thanks! To actually read the news as email, I wrote this:
12 >>
13 >> #!/usr/bin/perl
14 > [massive snip]
15 >
16 > What does this actually do? Does it separate each news item into a
17 > separate mail, which sounds a neat idea. If you just want all the news
18 > news items, you could replace "list" with "read new" in my
19 > script^H^H^H^H^^Hhack.
20
21 You can set it up either way, i. e. all in one email, or each item in
22 one, or several items in several mails, by setting $msglen. I didn't
23 know there is 'read new' ...