hi,
i been fiddling with this for a while now and have
not been able to get it to fly so i thought i'd ask
the experts.
i'd like to get somekind of notice when i receive mail
so i have this in my .maildelivery file
* - ^ R /usr/bin/rcvtty -nobell*
but this doesn't seem to do anything.
"Simon Butler" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
i been fiddling with this for a while now and have
not been able to get it to fly so i thought i'd ask
the experts.
i'd like to get somekind of notice when i receive mail
so i have this in my .maildelivery file
* - ^ R /usr/bin/rcvtty -nobell*
but
Neil W Rickert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
according to the jerry peaks book rcvtty will send
a message to all shells listed in my /var/run/utmp
file, which doesnot seem to be ascii file so i can't
see which shells are registered.
The 'who' command lists this.
one possible problem is
If you don't need notification right inside your xterm, Simon, you
might look into an X-based utility like xbiff or xmailbox. They
watch any mail file you tell them to -- for instance, the
/var/spool/mail/simon file, the inbox folder (file) in Netscape,
and so on.
If you do need notification in
"Simon Butler" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
* - ^ R /usr/bin/rcvtty -nobell*
The entry I am using is:
default - ^ R "/opt/nmh/lib/rcvtty -biff -nobell"
thx for the response jerry and neil.
well i tried your entry neil with no luck. i think there is
something screwed
