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From: ziegast@EGYPT.ENG.UMD.EDU (Eric Ziegast)
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Subject: Re: Using Unseen to check for new mail
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Date: 7 Mar 91 22:38:16 GMT
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Rob Menke writes:
>It's not pretty but I use:
>
>(show unseen > /dev/tty) >& /dev/null

Look at mh-profile(5) for more info on using the "unseen" sequence.
You need to add this entry to your .mh_profile:

	Unseen-Sequence: unseen

to make sure this works.
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Eric W. Ziegast, University of Merryland, Engineering Computing Services
ziegast@eng.umd.edu - Eric@(301.405.3689)