Mail notification under csh on R6000?

[Bradley T. Freese]

johnson at horta.rice.edu (Bruce Johnson) writes:

> While mail notification seems to work fine under ksh, we have
> been unable to get it to work under csh, which many of our
> users use as their login shell.  Putting the environmental
> variable MAIL to, e.g., "5 /usr/spool/mail/username" as described
> in the "man pages" for csh doesn't seem to accomplish much.  Is
> this a FAQ?

>From the csh prompt, try:
|%set mail = (5 /usr/spool/mail/username)

This works for me.  Notice that "mail" is lowercase, in contrast to
the bourne variable "MAIL".