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From: allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: Trouble with notify
Message-ID: <1989Sep15.003933.1173@NCoast.ORG>
Date: 15 Sep 89 00:39:33 GMT
References: <8909131437.AA18823@jvncf.csc.org>
Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery)
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As quoted from <8909131437.AA18823@jvncf.csc.org> by saroff@JVNCF.CSC.ORG (Steve Saroff lac00001):
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| I am trouble getting the ordinary notify on an ultrix machine.
| I do
| 
| setenv MAIL "20 /usr/spool/mail/$USER"
| 
| and I set notify, but for some reason I don't get any notifications.
+---------------

The MAIL environment variable does not use csh format, and can not be set in
that way.  It must be set to the name of yoru maildrop and nothing else, or
most mailers and the much-hated Bourne shell will throw fits.

.login:
	setenv MAIL /usr/spool/mail/$USER
	set mail=(20 $MAIL)

.cshrc:
	if ( $?MAIL ) set mail=(20 $MAIL)

(The double "set mail" is because .cshrc executes *before* .login in a login
shell.)

++Brandon
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