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From: freese@dalvm41b.vnet.ibm.com ("Bradley T. Freese")
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Mail notification under csh on R6000?
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Date: 14 May 91 19:46:49 GMT
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johnson@horta.rice.edu (Bruce Johnson) writes:

> While mail notification seems to work fine under ksh, we have
> been unable to get it to work under csh, which many of our
> users use as their login shell.  Putting the environmental
> variable MAIL to, e.g., "5 /usr/spool/mail/username" as described
> in the "man pages" for csh doesn't seem to accomplish much.  Is
> this a FAQ?

From the csh prompt, try:
|%set mail = (5 /usr/spool/mail/username)

This works for me.  Notice that "mail" is lowercase, in contrast to
the bourne variable "MAIL".