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From: leres@ace.ee.lbl.gov (Craig Leres)
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Subject: Re: Cmail - check to see who's read their mail - UNIX
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Date: 24 Oct 89 01:41:39 GMT
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Reply-To: leres@helios.ee.lbl.gov (Craig Leres)
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> Here's a neat little program which detects whether users on your
> local machine have ready their mail recently.  It reports when they
> last checked it and also whether any new mail has arrived since.

Note that if a user is logged in and uses biff (or sysline), you can't
really tell when mail was last read since biff reads new messages as
they arrive. This is particuarly a problem if the person stays logged
into a workstation 24 hours a day...

		Craig