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- From: edik@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA (Ed Sternin)
- Subject: Help: problems with remote mailbox
- Message-ID: <1993Jan9.015630.10432@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA>
- Organization: Brock University, St. Catharines Ontario
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- Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 01:56:30 GMT
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- Folks, I cannot make it work, please help!
-
- On machine A.A I want to open a mailbox that will
- - raise its flag when /usr/mail/myself on machine B.B receives mail
- - execute a mail program on B.B and send the output to A.A when I
- click on the mailbox icon on A.A
-
- This is what I thought would work:
-
- /usr/sbin/mailbox -f B.B:/usr/mail/myself -m '/usr/bsd/rsh B.B /usr/sbin/xwsh \
- -fg 7 -bg 97 -bold 230 -cursorfg 95 -geom 80x40 -display A.A:0 -e /usr/sbin/Mail' &
-
- Well, the mailbox icon pops up, the part in quotes works if I it by itself, but the
- mail received on B.B is never detected. Why is that?
-
- Also, a small problem: I have not been able to make mailbox deposit itself some place
- on the screen, as -geometry does not seem to be recognized. Any way around that?
-
- Thanks all you wizards! Please, reply directly to edik@brocku.ca, I will summarize for the net.
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