Re: Console new mail notification
Aaron Brashears <gila@gila.org> writes:
> I'm running debian stable, and I've set up procmail to filter
> messages into appropriate mailboxes. However, now that almost all
> mail is filtered into /home/gila/Mail, none of it winds up in
> /var/... so console mail notification doesn't work correctly. Is
> there any way to configure bash to check in different directories
> for mail?
Yes, see the bash manual. You set $MAILPATH to a colon seperated list
of filenames, which should be checked for new mail. Furthermore,
you've to set 'mailwarn' with 'shopt', if it's unset.
moritz
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