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From: jr@bbn.com (John Robinson)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Finding out when new mail has arrived
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Date: 19 Dec 88 15:59:35 GMT
References: <1466@zen.UUCP> <8812180059.AA04299@nucst4.neep.wisc.edu>
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In-reply-to: simmons@nucst4.neep.wisc.EDU (kim h simmons)

In article <1466@zen.UUCP>, vic@zen (Victor Gavin) writes:
>
>Is it possible for GNU emacs to notify me whenever I have new mail in my
>mailbox ?

In article <8812180059.AA04299@nucst4.neep.wisc.edu>, simmons@nucst4 (kim h simmons) writes:
>I think that the word 'Mail' appears in the mode line if there is mail 
>that you have not read yet.

... provided you have called (display-time), typically from your
.emacs file.  This in turn runs the program emacs/etc/ loadst, which
uses the environment variable MAIL if set to know where to look,
otherwise it defaults to /usr/spool/mail/${USER} for BSD,
/usr/mail/${LOGNAME} for USG, or /usr/spool/mail/${LOGNAME} for Xenix.
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