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From: edw@sequent.UUCP (Ed Wright)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re: Where does mail info come from in finger ?
Message-ID: <62023@sequent.UUCP>
Date: 17 Jun 91 05:25:52 GMT
References: <1669@fs1.ee.ubc.ca>
Reply-To: edw@sequent.UUCP (Ed Wright)
Organization: Commitee to Elect Papoon/Plutimono for President (He's Not Insane)
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In article <1669@fs1.ee.ubc.ca> tibors@ee.ubc.ca (tibor szikszai) writes:
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%I looked at the source for finger, but I couldn't find anything that
%seems to be checking any files for whether the person being fingered
%has mail or not.  So I am curious about how things like "No unread
%mail." or "New mail received ...  Unread since ..." or "Mail last read ..."
%get printed.  Does anybody know?  Is another daemon doing this job?

The mail info is just a check of mtime and atime on the user's mail box.
I don't recall ever getting that information back from finger however.

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