Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!decwrl!ucbvax!THUMPER.BELLCORE.COM!howard From: howard@THUMPER.BELLCORE.COM (Howard Bussey) Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.andrew Subject: Re: Why isn't ATK more widely used? Message-ID: Date: 31 Jul 90 17:41:05 GMT References: Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 42 Excerpts from internet.info-andrew: 31-Jul-90 Re: Why isn't ATK more wide.. Nathaniel Borenstein@thu (1307+0) > ... > 1. Install my "eatmail" program, which simply transfers mail from > /usr/spool/mail/nsb into separate files in your Mailbox directory. I > sent this to the ITC, but I don't know if they're putting it in a patch > or not. If not, I can send you a copy privately. It doesn't use > dynamic loading, etc., and hence should be pretty easy to compile > anywhere. > 2. Set up your sites AndrewSetup file with a line like the following: > AMS_MailCollectionCommand: rsh your-mail-mainframe /full/path/to/eatmail > This will mean that every time you say "Check New Messages", the eatmail > program will be rsh'ed on your mail mainframe. The eatmail program will > move your mail into your Mailbox directory on NFS, and all will be well > from there. The spool file can stay local to the mainframe, so you > won't have to worry about trying to lock files over NFS. > I think that should solve your problem -- good luck! -- Nathaniel I used another approach (with some consultation with Nathaniel) so that my mail went to one machine (thumper.bellcore.com) which has systems administration to make sure it keeps running, but I could read the mail from messages running on a workstation. I simply put the following line in my per-user crontab (USG Unix V5.xx(?) , Sunos 4.0.xx): 1,6,11,16,21,26,31,36,41,46,51,56 * * * * /usr/local/pkg/X11/andrew/bin/cui check\; quit /dev/null 2>&1 (it's all one line) The problem is that this method breaks things like "xbiff". Note that if having xbiff broken isn't a problem, Nathaniel's mail eater could replace this rather kludgy use of cui. I'll be switching to "eatmail" soon. Howard Bussey ; Bellcore MRE 2P-288; voice: +201.829.4479; fax: +201.984.2283