[wellylug] MailDIR + "You have new mail"

David Antliff dave.antliff at paradise.net.nz
Tue Jul 27 23:02:04 NZST 2004


On Tue, 27 Jul 2004, jumbophut wrote:
>
> 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?

At the moment, I rely on hitting Enter to 'poll' for new mail (if new mail
is available, I get a message to that effect). I'd quite like something
that worked asyncronously actually, and displays the new mail message as
soon as new mail arrives. This is because I check my mail from a different
PC. Perhaps I could get the mail client to send an email when it receives
new email to my other PC so that I receive notification of the first email
as the second email when it arrives as new mail there. Hmmm....

Let us know if you find anything good please :)





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