Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!virtech!cpcahil
From: cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: new mail notification
Message-ID: <1990Nov05.112943.21168@virtech.uucp>
Date: 5 Nov 90 11:29:43 GMT
References: <4464@iitmax.IIT.EDU>
Reply-To: cpcahil@virtech.UUCP (Conor P. Cahill)
Organization: Virtual Technologies Inc., Sterling VA
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In article <4464@iitmax.IIT.EDU> thssdwv@iitmax.iit.edu (David William Vrona) writes:
>I would like to be able to get notification of NEW mail, i.e. not read yet,
>whenever I login to my unix machine.  I am running 386ix v2.02.  Are the tools
>already in place to do this or do I need something else?  Thanks.

RTFM (specifically the sh(1) man page, discussion about MAIL, MAILCHECK and
MAILPATH environment variables).

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