Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ukma!rutgers!apple!vsi1!lmb
From: lmb@vicom.COM (Larry Blair)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mush
Subject: Re: instant notification of new mail in curses mode
Keywords: new mail
Message-ID: <1713@vicom.COM>
Date: 8 May 89 05:27:44 GMT
References: <1628@taux01.UUCP>
Reply-To: lmb@vicom.COM (Larry Blair)
Organization: VICOM Systems Inc., San Jose, CA
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In article <1628@taux01.UUCP> cjosta@tasu77.UUCP (Jonathan Sweedler) writes:
=I am running mush on a sun console.  I originally used the tool
=interface to mush, but discovered that this interface lacks A LOT of
=the functionality of the curses interface.  I found that I actually
=prefer the curses interface.  The only problem with this interface is
=that I no longer get instant notification of my incoming mail.

My solution for this is to run the "newmail" program from the elm distribution.
I start it in my .profile before it fires up suntools.  The messages that is
produces when new mail arrives cause my "contool" to flash.
-- 
Larry Blair   ames!vsi1!lmb   lmb@vicom.com