Or, if {w}newmail is installed (part of the elm distribution, I
believe), you can do something like:
newmail $MAILSPOOL $MYMAIL/nanog $MYMAIL/com-priv $MYMAIL/procmail
Set an environment variables to taste (here, $MAILSPOOL=/var/spool/mail
and $MYMAIL=$HOME/Mail). The above monitors my regular mail spool and
three mailing lists.
Replace newmail with wnewmail and you get output that stays on your
screen, scrolling, instead of a background process. This becomes
useful coupled with "screen", "splitvt", an xterm, etc.
write a simple perl script... run it as a background
process when u'r logged in, and zap it while u logout...
Having redirected your message to a folder, how could you get an
indication that a new mail has arrived and o which folder has it been
stored, other than having to look at the log file? If you don't store them