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From: trombley@oswego.Oswego.EDU (Mike Trombley)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh
Subject: Re: Newmail Notification
Keywords: Help, new to MH
Message-ID: <909@oswego.Oswego.EDU>
Date: 6 Sep 88 23:04:53 GMT
References: <908@oswego.Oswego.EDU> <12379@duke.cs.duke.edu>
Reply-To: trombley@oswego.oswego.edu.UUCP (Mike Trombley)
Distribution: comp
Organization: SUNY Oswego
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In article <12379@duke.cs.duke.edu> khera@romeo.UUCP (Vick Khera) writes:
>>
>>	Is there any way to get MH to notify a person when new mail arrives
>>	like biff normally would?
>>	-Mike
>
>There is no reason that you cannot run biff.  I do not like biff,
>personally, but a friend of mine uses it to notify him of mail arriving
>then reads it using mh.
>

I have a .forward file in my account that pipes my mail to slocal, so it
never gets dropped in /usr/spool.  Since biff looks in /usr/spool (I think)
it never knows that I received any mail.  I'm sorry I was unclear in my
original posting.

-Mike