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      1 # Unread counts from thunderbird
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      3 I wanted counts of unread emails onto my dwm status bar, and could not find any nice way to the those from thunderbird. With a few pointers from the intarnets, I wrote this [quick'n'dirty perl script](/p/tbunread.perl) to get the info in a reasonably interactive and resource friendly manner.
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      5 It abuses tail -f to read the .msf files under $HOME/.thunderbird/*.default (note: new boxen won't appear in the results without restart of the script).
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      7 The script is probably buggy and there most likely are cases where it fails dramatically, but seems to work well enough.