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From: asg@sage.cc.purdue.edu (The Grand Master)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: In Response to an IDIOT Re: filter rule won't work
Keywords: What a total IDIOT!!!
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Date: 20 Feb 91 17:24:15 GMT
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In article <3748@casbah.acns.nwu.edu> navarra@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (John Navarra) writes:
%In article <490@shrike.AUSTIN.LOCKHEED.COM> aihaug@AUSTIN.LOCKHEED.COM (Daniel A Haug) writes:
%>Another question about filters: as soon as I started using this,
%>I no longer get biff-type notification at my terminal when new
%>mail has arrived.  Is there a way to still get notified for most
%>of my mail?
%     I played around with this one for a while. First of I am using Elm 2.3 and
% I am running bash (yeah bash!) as my shell but this should not make a differ-
% ence in the following description.
bash is awesome!!!!
%	As far as biff is concerned, I don't think you can get it to look   
%anywhere but the usual place to notify you about mail. Therefore, I used 
%newmail-- which you should have if you are running 2.2.
biff is anoying and so is newmail. You are a total idiot. I do not
understnad how you could even DREAM of using either one when you have
the incredibly more powerful mail checking of bash
%	I did this:
%       I changed my MAILPATH=/usr/spool/mail/navarra:/home/u3/navarra/Mail
%and put a line like /usr/local/bin/newmail $HOME/Mail in my .bash_profile
%so newmail knows to check this directory (because that is where filtered 
%mail is kept)
What a STUPID idea!! This guy is a total idiot. 
First of all, your problem is that MAILPATH should be set to a file, not
to a directory. And newmail is the same - it must be set to a file
not a directory. 
If, like this total idiot from nwu, you use bash, 
What you should do is set mail path like this:
MAILPATH=/usr/spool/mail/navarra?"New mail in main mailbox"
MAILPATH=$MAILPATH:$HOME/Mail/bruce?"New mail in folder bruce"
MAILPATH=$MAILPATH:$HOME/Mail/swd?"New mail in folder swd"
etc.
Then MAILCHECK=1
and you will receive notification of ANY mail and where it has arrived
immediately.
%	Now when I sent myself mail using a filter rule which saved mail
%in $HOME/Mail/test I DID NOT get notified of new mail!! SO what I did was
%to include the file test in my MAILPATH and then i was notified that I got
%mail. The only problem is that as far as I know, you would have to specify
%a file for each message. I could be wrong on this but if anyone knows for
%sure, please answer this.
NOt a file for each message, a file for each folder.
%
%----------------------
%from the lab of the MaD ScIenTISt
%navarra@casbah.acns.nwu.edu
%
MaD is absolutely right - you are a TOTAL idiot
GET A LIFE

culter ;-)

			The Grand Master