Bruce, Thanks for the information. I don't suppose you'd know of anything which would perform biff's function without my reinventing a wheel? I know it's just a question of pressing 'enter' in my open bash terminal to see if i have new mail, but it'd be nice to be able to leave a terminal open and have async notification of new mail.
Many thanks for your help, and making Debian the platform of choice (IMHO). Thomas --(fortune.sig)-- Welcome to the Zoo!
