trombley@oswego.Oswego.EDU (Mike Trombley) (09/06/88)
Is there any way to get MH to notify a person when new mail arrives like biff normally would? We always run rcvalert (although I can't seem to find the program anywhere) , have tried using rcvtty and piping our mail to slocal -verbose, but still can't get it to work. I'm new to MH, so if anyone wants to pass along any other things that might eliminate future headaches, please pass them along. Thanks in advance. -Mike
khera@romeo.cs.duke.edu (Vick Khera) (09/06/88)
In article <908@oswego.Oswego.EDU> trombley@oswego.oswego.edu (Mike Trombley) writes: > > Is there any way to get MH to notify a person when new mail arrives > like biff normally would? > -Mike There is no reason that you cannot run biff. I do not like biff, personally, but a friend of mine uses it to notify him of mail arriving then reads it using mh. v. ============================================================================= Department of Computer Science, Duke University, Durham, NC 27706 ARPA: khera@cs.duke.edu CSNET: khera@duke
trombley@oswego.Oswego.EDU (Mike Trombley) (09/07/88)
In article <12379@duke.cs.duke.edu> khera@romeo.UUCP (Vick Khera) writes: >> >> Is there any way to get MH to notify a person when new mail arrives >> like biff normally would? >> -Mike > >There is no reason that you cannot run biff. I do not like biff, >personally, but a friend of mine uses it to notify him of mail arriving >then reads it using mh. > I have a .forward file in my account that pipes my mail to slocal, so it never gets dropped in /usr/spool. Since biff looks in /usr/spool (I think) it never knows that I received any mail. I'm sorry I was unclear in my original posting. -Mike