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 Small shell script to regularly check a target person's responsiveness via mail.
 
-Expects mutt to be usable for sending mails via command line.
+When run as "pingmail check", tries to derive the last time a person sent a
+mail to the local system by either a) searching a maildir for the most recent
+file matching a regex pattern (such as a "From: " field matching the target
+person), and looking at thta file's modification time, or b) checking the
+modification time of a defined mailbox file. If that point in time is too
+distant, sends an e-mail to the target person requesting some sign of life.
+After some more wait time without a sign of life, sends a warning message to
+another mail address that target person is unresponsive.
 
 When run as "pingmail check", searches a maildir for the most recent file
 matching a regex pattern (such as a "From: " field matching the target person),
@@ -17,5 +24,5 @@ pingmailrc.example file for more details.
 
 To install as an hourly cronjob, define $path_to_pingmail_script_file, then do:
 
-line='0 * * * * '$path_to_pingmail_script_file' check'
-(crontab -l; echo $line) | crontab -
+line='0 * * * * '$path_to_pingmail_script_file' check > /dev/null'
+(crontab -l; echo "$line") | crontab -