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From: barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: mail notification at login
Message-ID: <1991Feb7.044851.2811@Think.COM>
Date: 7 Feb 91 04:48:51 GMT
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In article <1991Feb6.233621.16164@nntp-server.caltech.edu> allen@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Scott R. Allen) writes:
>If someone can explain how 'login' decides between 'you have mail'
>and 'you have new mail' I would really appreciate it.

If the modification time of the mail file is more recent than the access
time, it adds the word "new".
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Barry Margolin, Thinking Machines Corp.

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