chris.umcp-cs@UDel-Relay (02/10/83)
From: Chris Torek <chris.umcp-cs@UDel-Relay> New Mail vs. Old Mail: We here at Univ. of Maryland have a habit of keeping mail around in our /usr/spool/mail/$USER files until we've actually done whatever it is we want to do about it, and don't like having the " Mail" message if the spool file is nonempty, but only if it is new. I have a version of loadst.c that has #ifdef'ed code to do new-mail-only, no-message- if-your-mail-is-old if anyone wants that. Mailers: I have a mailer written entirely in mlisp (extremely slow!) that handles Berkeley format mail, that looks very similar to ucbmail. It works with uucp, and calls delivermail, etc. etc. I am occasionally working on a mail interface to MMDF with lots of nice features. (The reader works, so far; I haven't implemented reply or send yet.) It is partially in C so it's considerably faster than my old Berserkeley mailer. One thing in particular that it has is inclusion of mail that arrived since you started -- the 'a' command appends any new mail. I've occasionally run "mail" 6 or 7 times in a row because "New mail has arrived" after each exit. Anyway, if anyone wants either one, I can send it (in the case of the MMDF mailer, after I've finished it).