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Re: selective 'biff'

1996-04-26 00:09:29
On Thu, 25 Apr 1996, Timothy J. Luoma wrote:

I'd like to be notified of new mail if and only if it matches a certain
criteria.  I tried to use the 'write' command (to echo the FROM and
SUBJECT) but it never seems to be able to figure out my tty...

Why not just use procmail to filter that important mail into a certain
"important" folder, say important.fdr  and then use

xbiff -file important.fdr

to monitor only that folder.

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Derrick Green
eusdegr(_at_)wser(_dot_)ericsson(_dot_)se
Richardson, Texas

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