Subject: Detecting incoming mail in more than one inbox

From: [email-masked] (Yves Pelletier)
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 1994 20:26:47 GMT

Thanks to procmail and pine,  my incoming mail now gets sorted 
into separate inboxes, depending on what the message is about, 
where it came from, etc.

 The only problem is that now I only get paged when new mail 
comes into the _default_ mailbox; but I also would like to be alerted
when mail comes into some of my other incoming folders.  I suppose 
I could have a separate xbiff for each mailbox, but that doesn't 
strike me as very elegant, and it would clutter my desktop. 

Is there a simple,  automatic way to check more than one mailbox 
for incoming  mail?

Thanks

Yves 
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From: [email-masked] (Jim Davis)
Date: 14 Jul 1994 08:21:03 -0700

In article <[email-masked]>,
Yves Pelletier <[email-masked]> wrote:

:Is there a simple,  automatic way to check more than one mailbox 
:for incoming  mail?

The Korn shell and recent versions of the Bourne shell support MAILPATH
and MAILCHECK environment variables that let you poll multiple mailboxes
at specified intervals.

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From: [email-masked] (Neil Hoggarth)
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 1994 15:38:16 GMT

> Is there a simple,  automatic way to check more than one mailbox 

Most shells allow you to specify a list of files to be checked for new
mail. In sh, ksh or bash you can set a colon seperated list of files in
the environment variable MAILPATH. Csh has something similar, I forget
the details. Check the man page for your favourite shell.

Regards,

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From: [email-masked] (Paul Hirose)
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 1994 19:30:52 GMT

>Is there a simple,  automatic way to check more than one mailbox 

In various Bourne-shell derivatives, there is a mailpath environment variable.
In various csh derivatives, there is a mail shell variable.

But ince you mentined xbiff, there was a program posted to one of the .sources
newsgroups a few weeks ago, called "xmultibiff" which is a xbiff that can
do more than one mail-folder.  It can also beep you when news-articles arrive
and all sorts of other stuff.  You might want to try and see if you can find
that program too.

PH
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From: savundar@hdss46 (P Savundararaj)
Date: 14 Jul 1994 18:50:01 GMT

There is an application called "xmultibiff" which allows one to do this.

I think I got it from ftp.x.org 

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From: [email-masked] (Yves Pelletier)
Date: 14 Jul 94 20:50:45 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>, [email-masked] (Jim Davis) writes:
|> In article <[email-masked]>,
|> Yves Pelletier <[email-masked]> wrote:
|> 
|> :Is there a simple,  automatic way to check more than one mailbox 
|> :for incoming  mail?
|> 
|> The Korn shell and recent versions of the Bourne shell support MAILPATH
|> and MAILCHECK environment variables that let you poll multiple mailboxes
|> at specified intervals.
|> 

Thanks. That's exactly what I was looking for. Our system defaults to csh,
though.  Minor bummer...  I'll have to switch shells to get what I want.

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From: [email-masked] (Yves Pelletier)
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 1994 22:07:56 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>, [email-masked] (Neil Hoggarth) writes:

|> Most shells allow you to specify a list of files to be checked for new
|> mail. In sh, ksh or bash you can set a colon seperated list of files in
|> the environment variable MAILPATH. Csh has something similar, I forget
|> the details. Check the man page for your favourite shell.
|> 

Neil,

You are right, of course. I just checked: the C shell allows multiple files
to be listed in the "mail" variable. For instance:

set mail=(/users/yves/mail/default /users/yves/mail/wx-talk /users/yves/mail/op-met)

I hope I got that right...