

# gets mail and puts it in .mailrc

case $# in
0|1)  echo 'Usage: '$0 '<name> <message #>' 1>&2; exit 2
esac
egrep '^From ' /usr/spool/mail/$USER |
awk '{print $2}' |
sed -n "$2,$2p" |sed 's/\@cs.nyu.edu://g' > $$.tmp
if test ! -s $$.tmp
then
	rm -f $$.tmp
	echo "Message $2 does not exist" 1>&2; exit 2
fi
# if grep -i nyu $$.tmp
# then
#   x="alias $1 `cat $$.tmp`"
# else
#   cat $$.tmp |sed 's/\@/%/g' > y;
#   x="alias $1 `cat y`@cmcl2"
# fi
x="alias $1 `cat $$.tmp`"
echo $x >> $HOME/.mailrc 
rm -f $$.tmp
rm -f y
rm -f x


