For a few years I've checked email with a program I wrote called statmbx. It reads my mailboxes and gives me a summary of what is marked as 'new'. I like it a lot. The code is about as efficient as any code that reads all the mailboxes can be. The only way to make it more efficient would be indexing, and that would be a lot of work. It is a little slow on loaded machines, though. How to make it faster? I realized I use it for two things:
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For a few years I've checked email with a program I wrote called statmbx. It reads my mailboxes and gives me a summary of what is marked as 'new'. I like it a lot. The code is about as efficient as any code that reads all the mailboxes can be. The only way to make it more efficient would be indexing, and that would be a lot of work. It is a little slow on loaded machines, though. How to make it faster? I realized I use it for two things: