Cmail - check to see who's read their mail - UNIX

Craig Leres leres at ace.ee.lbl.gov
Tue Oct 24 11:41:39 AEST 1989


> Here's a neat little program which detects whether users on your
> local machine have ready their mail recently.  It reports when they
> last checked it and also whether any new mail has arrived since.

Note that if a user is logged in and uses biff (or sysline), you can't
really tell when mail was last read since biff reads new messages as
they arrive. This is particuarly a problem if the person stays logged
into a workstation 24 hours a day...

		Craig



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