email status, RO...

[Joe Szilagyi]

Normally something in /var/spool/mail doesn't pick up the lines:

Status: O
Status: RO

Or the link until a mail client actually accesses it, such as Pine (simply
launching it), or Evo, Outlook, etc.

Is there any way in bash to force the file to upload, and pick up these
tags, and be listed as R or RO? I'm wanting to write a quick script to read
mailboxes and accurately output the number of "new" emails in a box without
actually going into it.

Regards,
Joe