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- From: R.S.Jones@qmw.ac.uk (Robert S. Jones)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
- Subject: Re: Any way to notify a user when mail arrives?
- Message-ID: <1992Jul24.061856.6244@dcs.qmw.ac.uk>
- Date: 24 Jul 92 06:18:56 GMT
- References: <1992Jul23.134909.6093@dayton.saic.com>
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- In article <1992Jul23.134909.6093@dayton.saic.com> Earle Ake,
- ake@dayton.saic.com writes:
- > Is there any way to have sendmail notify the user when he/she has
- >received new mail? This is in a non-X environment. If I knew the way
- sendmail
- >delivered the mail maybe there could be a hack installed to send a message to
- >all logged the user when the mail arrived.
-
- Non-X you say. Un*x you don't say, but let's assume....
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- How about sticking 'biff y' in /etc/profile (or its moral equivalent), and
- voila! [Or "there y'go!", as you Americans seem to say :-)) ]
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- Hope this helps. Bob
-