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Re: xbiff for remote mail?



On Wed, Feb 24, 1999 at 12:32:52PM -0500, navindra@cs.mcgill.ca wrote:
> Rob Mahurin <alphenglor@rhct093.res.utk.edu> wrote:
> > Question:  I would like to have an xbiff-type mail alert on my
> > desktop, but I read my mail off of a remote server.  Is there an easy
> 
> ssh remote.server.com xbiff

I can think of many, many scenarios in which this will not work.

It presumes the user has a Unix shell account on the remote host.
It presumes the remote host has the xbiff program available.

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