On Sat, Feb 24, 2001 at 11:29:08AM -0500, Jimmy Kaplowitz wrote: > Does bash (or whatever shell you use) notify you when you have new mail? This > is > important to me. If not, how can I enable or replace this functionality? It's > so convenient!
No, not currently. I've no idea whether this can be achieved or not, though I suspect that with some reconfiguration and some scripts it probably can be done fairly simply. I'ts not something that I use regularly as I spend 99% of the time in X. Matthew > > - Jimmy Kaplowitz > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > On Sat, Feb 24, 2001 at 08:22:49AM +0000, Matthew Sackman wrote: > > Hi there, > > > > I use courier-imap which I find is fine: my big debian-user mail box often > > swells to >2000 messages and it takes about 12 seconds to fetch them all. > > > > I use postfix, delivering locally, the .forward file points to maildrop, > > which > > filters the emails into the correct mailboxes which I then access through > > mutt. > > > > It works pretty well! ;-) > > > > hope this helps > > > > Matthew > > > > On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 10:16:25PM -0500, Jimmy Kaplowitz wrote: > > > Could someone recommend which IMAP server I should use? The only one I've > > > tried, the one associated with Pine - or maybe it was the UW one (or are > > > they > > > the same? maybe) was too slow to use, and every other one I've seen does > > > not > > > support standard UNIX mbox format. That, however, is OK with me if I can > > > keep > > > the notification that bash gives me when I have new mail. I am under the > > > impression that this feature of bash only works for mbox format. How can I > > > resolve this and set up IMAP while preserving that feature? > > > > > > Thanks in advance. > > > > > > - Jimmy Kaplowitz > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > -- > > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >
