On Mon, 19 May 1997 15:54:30 +0100 (BST),
Georgios Katsikogiannis <george(_at_)net-cs(_dot_)ucd(_dot_)ie> wrote:
in the /var/spool/mail/xxxx, then can't you get a notification about any
incoming messages ? Is there any way to see in which folder is a new
message stored ?
If your comsat understands Procmail's notifications, go with that.
Some shells have their own built-in biff-like checking.
There are several third-party biffs which can monitor many mailboxes
at the same time.
You can write a shell script to periodically check files for new mail.
I use bash and a shell script I run when I log in and occasionally
during the day. (I'd like to have that kludged into Emacs's
display-time instead; I've been working on that at times but never
gotten around to finishing it.) When I'm at an X terminal, I use
xbuffy. Either way, I usually keep open a window (or screen, as it may
be -- I find screen(1) to be indispensable for a lot of reasons, even
under X --) with tail -0f ~/Mail/procmail.log
Hope this helps,
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