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From: mcgrew@ichthous.Eng.Sun.COM (Darin McGrew)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh
Subject: Re: xbiff with automagic-incing
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Date: 25 Oct 90 23:18:29 GMT
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In article <72800001@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> mark@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
>I am using mh and am usually logging in from an xterminal.
>I have my mail automagically inc-ed using .forward and  .maildelivery
>(thanks to this notesfile)
>
>Anyone out there care to share with me how you would use xbiff to
>monitor ~/mail/mh/1, to consider it true?  If the file dne, my xbiff
>breaks down and never shows up (I guess it wants a file of length 0??)

What I would do instead of having xbiff look at at your +inbox,
is use the checkCommand resource of xbiff to give it a command
that returns 0, 1, or 2 (new mail, no change, or mail cleared).
I've done this to teach xbiff to check both news and notes, and
it works fine.  All you have to do is supply the appropriate
checkCommand.

Darin McGrew			mcgrew@Eng.Sun.COM
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