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From: nsb@THUMPER.BELLCORE.COM (Nathaniel Borenstein)
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Subject: Re: Why isn't ATK more widely used?
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Date: 31 Jul 90 17:49:18 GMT
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Excerpts from info-andrew: 31-Jul-90 Re: Why isn't ATK more wide..
Howard Bussey@thumper.be (1834+0)

> 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 >/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.

... and if having xbiff or console broken IS a problem (it would be for
me), you can use a preference:

*.PersonalMailCollectionCommand: rsh mail-host-name /full/path/to/eatmail

or an AndrewSetupLine:

AMS_MailCollection:Command:  rsh mail-host-name /full/path/to/eatmail

Cheers.  -- Nathaniel