[comp.unix.aux] mail notification under CommandShell

lat@snoopy.cs.vt.edu (Laurie Zirkle) (12/19/90)

A user here has noticed that he does not get notified of new mail when
running CommandShell.  I never paid much attention when I was using the
MacII as my primary machine, but then again, I didn't get mail on that
MacII either.  Is this a known problem?  Or is there just something that
we missed in setting up his A/UX?  He is running A/UX 2.0 on a MacII.

Laurie Zirkle				phone:  703-231-6370
Computer Systems Engineer		internet: lat@vtopus.cs.vt.edu
Va Tech CS Department			bitnet: lat@vtcs1
Blacksburg, VA 24070

gentner@Apple.COM (Don Gentner) (12/20/90)

In article <772@creatures.cs.vt.edu> lat@vtopus.cs.vt.edu (Laurie Zirkle) writes:
>A user here has noticed that he does not get notified of new mail when
>running CommandShell.

Assuming the user is running csh, add the following line to their
.cshrc file:
	set mail = (10 /usr/mail/<username>)
where <username> is the person's login name.
                        Don
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Don Gentner			email: gentner@apple.com
Apple Computer			telephone: 408 974-5198
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