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From: boaz@Athena.MIT.EDU (Boaz P Ben-Zvi)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs
Subject: Notify on mail arrival (biff) in mode-line
Keywords: emacs, mail, mode line
Message-ID: <1989Nov20.182913.23723@athena.mit.edu>
Date: 20 Nov 89 18:29:13 GMT
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Has someone hacked up a way to signal in the mode line 
that new mail has arrived ?? I guess it take a process
to run and check periodically the size of
/usr/spool/mail/$user .
Can the display-time process be modified to do that ??

-- Boaz Ben-Zvi  (boaz@lcs.mit.edu)