Re: mail notification

[Thomas Cook <tom.cook@adelaide.edu.au>]

Check out 'man sh' and in particular the MAILPATH variable.  In brief,
setting it to '/var/spool/mail/my_user_name?"You have mail."' will cause
it to print "You have mail." when you receive mail.  If you can work
control-G into that message then it should beep when you receive mail,
assuming that bash works the same as sh and that control-G is the same
ascii value as it was on the old Z80 based amstrad machines ;-)

Good luck!

Tom

Chris Jenks wrote:
> 
> At 01:21 PM 2/11/02, Cheryl Homiak wrote:
> >Of course, I realize that one solution for this is to keep Pine open all
> >the time in one of my consoles, but I wondered whether or not there are
> >other solutions.
> >
> >--
> >                                 Cheryl
> 
> I know that biff is used for mail notification. Not exactly sure how it is
> used,
> but it something to check into.
> 
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