Subject: Way to check for new mail

From: Juanita Fischer <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 1995 11:39:47 -0800 (PST)

Is there a way to check for new mail from the command line without 
entering pine?

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From: Kevin Yeung <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 1995 18:45:26 +0800 (HKT)

> Is there a way to check for new mail from the command line without 

That is what I do... use pico to edit a text file containing the following:

finger.sun keviny|grep "New mail"
finger.sun keviny|grep unread
finger.sun keviny|grep Unread
finger.sun keviny|grep "Mail last read"

Substitute finger.sun and keviny with your local finger command and your 
user-id respectively.  Then, type "chmod u+x <filename>" to make it 
executable.  I hope this helps.

----------------------------------------------------------------------------
      ----    ----               Kevin Yeung
      |  |   /  /                
      |  |  /  /                 [email-masked]
      |  | /  /                  [email-masked]
      |  |/  /                   [email-masked]
      |      \
      |  |\   \   ----           "Love me, that's all I ask of you"
      |  | \   \ /  /
      |  |  \   V  /
      ----   \    /
             /   /
            /   /
           ----/
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From: Mike Lipscomb <mlipscom@utds01>
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 1995 12:34:11 -0600

Also, if you are running Unix you can use the "from" command.
(from the man page)

   Name
     from - identifies sender of mail

   Syntax
     from [-f mailbox] [-s sender]

   Description
     The from command prints out the mail header lines in a mailbox file to
     show you who has sent mail to you.

-Mike-
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From: Nancy McGough <[email-masked]>
Date: 6 Mar 1995 08:27:01 -0800

>Also, if you are running Unix you can use the "from" command.

Or frm or nfrm which are part of the elm package.

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From: [email-masked] (Ananda M. Kar)
Date: 7 Mar 1995 18:30:47 -0600

[ Nancy McGough <[email-masked]> wrote the following on "comp.mail.pine": ]

-> Mike Lipscomb <mlipscom@utds01> writes:
-> >Also, if you are running Unix you can use the "from" command.
-> 
-> Or frm or nfrm which are part of the elm package.

   Try "frm -t -n -v"

   Ananda

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