[NTLUG:Discuss] Last time mail was read.

[Bob Byron]

Rusty,

Thank you!  Interesting.  However, there are some users that use a 
different
outbound (smtp) server.  This show them as unread since the time the account
was created.  They do still read off of the pop server.

Bob

Rusty Haddock wrote:

>Bob Byron wrote:
>    >I saw that there is a simple way to get the last time email was
>    >read for an account by using the "finger" command.  Unfortunately,
>    >finger shows this "Unread since" value on the fourth or fifth line along
>    >with other information.  Is there another command that will show
>    >the last time email was read for a user?  I don't really want to dig
>    >into the maillog either.  finger will do, but it is not my ideal.
>
>Try this:
>
>	ls -lc --full-time /var/spool/mail/$USER
>
>Without the "--full-time" you could get just "May 28, 2003" with
>no time (ie. if the time of last status change is more the 6-months
>in the past).
>
>	-Rusty-
>  
>