[wellylug] MailDIR + "You have new mail"

jumbophut jumbophut at gmail.com
Tue Jul 27 21:29:36 NZST 2004


On Tue, 27 Jul 2004 15:12:46 +1200, Chris Hodgetts wrote:
> Does anyone know if you can make that helpful message
> "You have New Mail" when you login into a shell appear when you use
> mailDIR?
> 

X is easy, but a terminal app?  Hmmm.

Some not-so-promising info here (I'm assuming you use Bash):
<http://www.cs.utk.edu/~help/mail/biff/>

Something that might be more promising if you can figure out what the
heck that application (perl-panel?) is and how to get the patch:
<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/perlpanel-devel/2004-07/msg00001.html>

Finally, there's a netbsd app called qcheck, which is a 'Text-only
biff with Maildir support'.  Maybe it will compile under Linux?

Good luck.

-- 
Tony (echo 'spend!,pocket awide' | sed 'y/acdeikospntw!, /l at omcgtjuba.phi/')




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