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- NAME
- wnewmail - daemon to asynchronously notify of new mail
-
- SYNOPSIS
- wnewmail
- wnewmail filename
-
- DESCRIPTION
- Wnewmail is a daemon designed to run in a window on a windowing system
- (such as an HP or Sun system) and check every 10 seconds to see if there
- is any new mail for the user that started it up.
-
- If there is new mail, the program will "beep", and write to the window
- for each of the new messages;
-
- Mail from <name> -- <subject>
-
- where <name> is either the name of the person sending it, if available
- (the ARPA 'From:' line) or machine!login where machine is the machine the
- mail was sent from. If there is no subject, the message "<no subject>"
- will appear on the screen.
-
- If the message is a priority message (that is, the header contains a line
- "Priority:"), then the line output will be "PRIORITY mail from ..."
- rather than just "Mail from".
-
- This program will run forever, and can internally reset itself if mail is
- deleted from the incoming mailbox while trying to monitor it.
-
- If wnewmail is started up with a filename, it will perform exactly the
- same, but with the specified file as the one to check rather than the
- default users mailbox.
-
- AUTHOR
- Dave Taylor, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories.
-
- SEE ALSO
- notify in sh(1) or csh(1), newmail(1L)
-
- NOTE
- This is almost identical to the program newmail...
-
- BUG REPORTS TO
- Syd Weinstein elm@DSI.COM (dsinc!elm)
-
- COPYRIGHTS
- (c) Copyright 1986, 1987 by Dave Taylor
- (c) Copyright 1988, 1989, 1990 by The USENET Community Trust
-