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From: freese@dalvm41b.vnet.ibm.com ("Bradley T. Freese")
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Mail notification
Message-ID: <9105071543.AA01200@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: 7 May 91 13:07:47 GMT
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ejbehr@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu (Eric Behr) writes:

> I'm using csh under AIX 3.1 on a 530. Here is the problem: when I log on,
> there is never any notification of waiting mail (new or old). Moreover,
> while I'm logged on, the only way to get notified of arrival of new mail is
> to have comsat run. It then displays several lines of the incoming message
> no matter what I'm doing, so when I'm in vi for example, the whole screen
> gets royally messed up. Is there some way to get a more discreet message,
> or to make it appear *only* when getting back to the shell from an
> application? Thanks in advance.

Try this at the csh prompt:

    %set mail = (0 /usr/spool/mail/eric)

This tells csh how often (in seconds, I think) to check your mail and where
to find it.  The "0" for how often tells it to check at every prompt.  You
can list multiple files after the number.