Usenet 1994 October/usenetsourcesnewsgroupsinfomagicoctober1994disk2.iso/misc/volume7/mailwatcher/mailwatcher.csh

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#
# mailwatcher (c) s. manoharan edinburgh u
#             [e-mail]
#

onintr - ;
set username = `whoami`;
set oldmailsize = 0;
set alert = "";

while ( 1 )
   set newmailsize = `wc -c < /usr/spool/mail/$username`;

   if ( $newmailsize > $oldmailsize ) then
      echo $alert;
      echo "You have new mail";
      from;
   endif
   set oldmailsize = $newmailsize;
   sleep 60;
end