Subject: Re: Incoming Mail Notification

From: [email-masked] (Herman Bakker)
Date: 15 Jun 1996 14:06:42 GMT

>> | Does anyone know how we can get Unix, Pine, or Host Presenter to make our 
>> | PC's beep at us when we get new mail?  We'd like to be able to leave a 
>> | Pine session running in the background during the day but be able to hear 
>> | when we have new mail.
>> 

You can forward your mail to yourself and to a program that gives a
bell sound, like a compiled program that contains:   /bin/echo "\a"

yourself@host, |name-of-the-program-with-bell-sound

Have fun,

Herman.

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From: Jonathan David Makepeace <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 1996 13:26:39 -0500

On Tue, 11 Jun 1996 [email-masked] wrote:

> You could use the "newmail" or "wnewmail" program that comes with almost 
> every UNIX flavors... (I guest)  You wouldn't exactly be in PINE but pine 
> could still stay in background. Another way would be using "screen" 
> without taking out the bell.

We discovered that we can enable a bell in Host Presenter under 
Setup/Emulator/Communications.

Thank you.

--  Jonathan David Makepeace     Monograph Cataloger/Automation Specialist
    LSU Libraries, 30 Middleton  Tel. (504) 388-3331
    Louisiana State University   Fax. (504) 388-6992
    Baton Rouge, LA 70803-3300   mailto:[email-masked]