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From: Stephen Shirley <diamond@skynet.ie>
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Subject: Re: [ILUG] vanquishing the daemons of shell scripting
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On Sat, Jul 20, 2002 at 12:18:57PM +0100, Kenn Humborg wrote:
> > mine, and i is happy person once again. In case you were wondering, the
> > aim of all of this was to write a shell script that could check for new
> > mail on an imap server.
> 
> Doesn't answer your question, but perhaps a combination of expect and
> (netcat or telnet) might have made for an easier solution?

Indeed, and that was the fall-back plan if i couldn't figure this out,
but i knew it had to be possible, and was determined to find a way.

Steve
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"Oh look, it's the Pigeon of Love."

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