LOG_SCAN(1)             Utility Commands              LOG_SCAN(1)



NAME
     log_scan - program for scanning the procmail(1) log-file

SYNOPSIS
     log_scan

DESCRIPTION
     log_scan reads the .procmail.log-file in your $HOME-directory,
     extracts certain information which is displayed (e.g., how many
     new mails have arrived, to which folders or addresses have they
     been forwarded) and renames the log-file to a different name so
     that the next time log_scan is invoked, only the newest mails
     that arrived in the meantime are displayed.

     The name to which the .procmail.log-file is renamed is usually
     ".procmail.log.old".

     If this file already exists, ".procmail.log.000" is tried. If
     this file also exists, the filename is incremented by one and
     that filename is tested, and so on, until a filename is found
     which doesn't correspond to an existing file.

     See log_show(1) on how to display the same information without
     renaming the .procmail.log-file.

EXAMPLE
     > log_scan

     You have 3 new mails in your main folder.
     You have 3 new mails in folder 'asciiart'.
     You have 2 new mails in folder 'perlbug'.
     You have 3 new mails in folder 'tkperl'.
     You have 1 new mail from 'sb'.
     You have 2 new mails from 'wolfgang'.

SEE ALSO
     log_show(1), procmail(1), procmailrc(5).

VERSION INFORMATION
     This man page documents log_scan, version 1.0.

AUTHOR
     Steffen Beyer at sd&m GmbH & Co. KG, Munich, Germany