new mail notification

Conor P. Cahill cpcahil at virtech.uucp
Mon Nov 5 22:29:43 AEST 1990


In article <4464 at iitmax.IIT.EDU> thssdwv at iitmax.iit.edu (David William Vrona) writes:
>I would like to be able to get notification of NEW mail, i.e. not read yet,
>whenever I login to my unix machine.  I am running 386ix v2.02.  Are the tools
>already in place to do this or do I need something else?  Thanks.

RTFM (specifically the sh(1) man page, discussion about MAIL, MAILCHECK and
MAILPATH environment variables).

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