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From: root@candle.uucp (Bruce Momjian)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: sh mail notification
Message-ID: <1991Jun1.181010.4958@candle.uucp>
Date: 1 Jun 91 18:10:10 GMT
Organization: private system
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The Bourne shell has a MAILCHECK variable which checks every so often (10
minutes) for mail and notifies the user if mail has arrived since it
last checked.  I now run a PD korn shell which does not have this
capability, and I would like to add it.  I understand it checks the
modification time, but that would change when mail was deleted too.  

Does anyone know how it checks?  If not, can I put something in my
crontab or start a background job at login to do this?
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