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From: fredrick@acd.ucar.edu (Tim Fredrick)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: biff (mail notification under AIX3.1.3002)
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Date: 11 Feb 91 16:08:49 GMT
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Reply-To: fredrick@acd.ucar.edu (Tim Fredrick)
Organization: Atmospheric Chemistry Division/NCAR, Boulder CO
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On our other UNIX machines, when new mail is received, the user's terminal
beeps and the first couple of lines of the message is displayed.

I can't seem to achieve this effect on the Risc-System 6000 (AIX3.1.3002).
Setting the mail environment variable to something like
"(30 /usr/spool/mail/fredrick)" causes "you have new mail" to display the
first time after 30 seconds you enter a new command.  But no bell, and no
subject line.

Any suggestions or is this simply not a part of AIX3.1?  Thanks in advance.

--Tim

Tim Fredrick             National Center for Atmospheric Research
                         Atmospheric Chemistry Division
fredrick@ncar.ucar.edu   PO Box 3000
fredrick@ncar.CSNET      Boulder, CO 80307