Subject: NOTIFICATION OF NEW MAIL

From: Thom Scott <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 1995 12:30:37 -0400 (EDT)

Is there a feature available in Pine which will notify you of the arrival 
of newly received mail while you are working in another program.  i.e. 
something which would pop-up on the screen to tell you that mail has 
arrived so that a user would know that they should stop and check their 
messages.  If Pine does not offer this is there something else that does?

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From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 1995 16:00:58 -0400

try adding 
biff y
to your .login file or other configuration file
that will do something like what you are asking for.

TjL

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From: Ken Gross <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 1995 21:44:23 -0700

> that will do something like what you are asking for.

This did not solve my problem.  All it did was cause the error 
'mesg: /dev/tty<whatever> directory not found' when I logged into my 
tcsh.  I don't know if Thom is running in a tcsh or not, so can't 
say definitavely if the 'biff y' trick will work for him.  (Would another 
shell work better?  Say a bash or a ksh?)

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From: Clyde Moseberry <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 1995 10:31:13 CDT

biff y sets your user execute permission to ACTIVE OR 1 on tty
to check your tty status type 

ls -l `tty`

if biff doesn't reside on your system, try setting the user execute
permission manually with

chmod u+x `tty`

to get really COOL (with subject and sender included) notification, 
see if rcvtty is on your system -- if it's available set it up in a 
.forward file -- run a man page on rcvtty for details -- look at the
references at your leisure too; rcvtty require u+x on tty.

you can also use mesg y to get but that allows other intrusions into your
sessions that you might not want -- such as talk and write from group and
public levels

MOSEBERRY

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From: Ralf Widera <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 1995 18:42:27 +0200 (MET DST)

> if biff doesn't reside on your system, try setting the user execute

biff y or chmod u+x `tty` does not work. I always get something like:
/dev/ttyp1: Not owner

ls -l `tty` results in 
crw-rw-rw-  1 root      20,   1 Aug 24 18:36 /dev/ttyp1

What can I do?

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From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 1995 12:02:04 -0400

I believe there also exists a program called 'newmail' and its 
counterpart 'wnewmail' (they were on my system [precompiled] when I 
acquired it, so I can't help with any source code)

that way be worth checking into archie.

TjL

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From: [email-masked] (Bruce Welch)
Date: 25 Aug 1995 08:08:28 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>,
Ralf Widera wrote: 

:
:biff y or chmod u+x `tty` does not work. I always get something like:
:/dev/ttyp1: Not owner
:
:ls -l `tty` results in 
:crw-rw-rw-  1 root      20,   1 Aug 24 18:36 /dev/ttyp1
:
:What can I do?
:

Avoid the whole mess, put "wnewmail &" into your .login file.  I use 
wnewmail -i10 & to check for mail every 10 seconds - runs quietly in the 
background and kills itself when I logoff.  

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