[comp.mail.misc] Trouble with notify

saroff@JVNCF.CSC.ORG (Steve Saroff lac00001) (09/13/89)

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Subject: Help with notify
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I am trouble getting the ordinary notify on an ultrix machine.
I do

setenv MAIL "20 /usr/spool/mail/$USER"

and I set notify, but for some reason I don't get any notifications.

Are there any 'sets' or other actions in a .login or .cshrc file which
can kill the set notify?

Thanks

			SzS
Dr. S.Z. Saroff
John von Neumann National Supercomputer Center   internet: saroff@jvncf.csc.org
665 College Road East, P.O. Box 3717                       saroff@jvncc.csc.org
Princeton, NJ 08543   (609) 520-2000             bitnet:   saroff@jvncc
               
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			SzS
Dr. S.Z. Saroff
John von Neumann National Supercomputer Center   internet: saroff@jvncf.csc.org
665 College Road East, P.O. Box 3717                       saroff@jvncc.csc.org
Princeton, NJ 08543   (609) 520-2000             bitnet:   saroff@jvncc
               
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allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery) (09/15/89)

As quoted from <8909131437.AA18823@jvncf.csc.org> by saroff@JVNCF.CSC.ORG (Steve Saroff lac00001):
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| I am trouble getting the ordinary notify on an ultrix machine.
| I do
| 
| setenv MAIL "20 /usr/spool/mail/$USER"
| 
| and I set notify, but for some reason I don't get any notifications.
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The MAIL environment variable does not use csh format, and can not be set in
that way.  It must be set to the name of yoru maildrop and nothing else, or
most mailers and the much-hated Bourne shell will throw fits.

.login:
	setenv MAIL /usr/spool/mail/$USER
	set mail=(20 $MAIL)

.cshrc:
	if ( $?MAIL ) set mail=(20 $MAIL)

(The double "set mail" is because .cshrc executes *before* .login in a login
shell.)

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