That actually has to do with wither or not people can write
messages to your terminal screen with commands such as
write, talk or wall.
At 03:17 AM 2/12/02, François Chenais wrote:
And what about using the command mesg in your .bashrc.
mesg yallows others to write on your terminal. So tha
> "Cheryl" == Cheryl Homiak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Cheryl> Hi all! I am using woody; have exim and fetchmail and
Cheryl> Pine for mail, though considering a change to mutt. Can't
Cheryl> use Xwindows or graphical systems because I am blind. I
Cheryl> want to know whether
And what about using the command mesg in your .bashrc.
mesg yallows others to write on your terminal. So that, I think
that your are notify by a beep when receiving a mail .
Hope that will help you
François
On Tue, 12 Feb 2002 16:44:59 +1030
Thomas Cook <[EM
This is done either by the server comsat, which is the server for biff,
or by bash itself. If it is bash then it is done with the MAIL or
MAILPATH variables.
Regards
Tom
Cheryl Homiak wrote:
>
> Can anybody tell me which file causes this to come on my screen:
> "You have mail in /var/spool/mail/
Can anybody tell me which file causes this to come on my screen:
"You have mail in /var/spool/mail/chomiak"
If I could find that file I might be able to modify it to get a beep when
mail comes in instead of just the words on the screen. /etc/bash_profile
was suggested to me; I don't have that. I ch
Check out 'man sh' and in particular the MAILPATH variable. In brief,
setting it to '/var/spool/mail/my_user_name?"You have mail."' will cause
it to print "You have mail." when you receive mail. If you can work
control-G into that message then it should beep when you receive mail,
assuming that b
At 01:21 PM 2/11/02, Cheryl Homiak wrote:
Of course, I realize that one solution for this is to keep Pine open all
the time in one of my consoles, but I wondered whether or not there are
other solutions.
--
Cheryl
I know that biff is used for mail notification.
Of course, I realize that one solution for this is to keep Pine open all
the time in one of my consoles, but I wondered whether or not there are
other solutions.
--
Cheryl
Tim Thomson wrote:
> Hi,
> I have a number of mail boxes, to handle the different lists I am on.
> I use procmail to filter the mails to the right folders.
>
> I have put:
> MAIL='/var/spool/mail/tim;/home/tim/mail/debian-user;/home/tim/mail/seul-
> project'
> MAILCHECK=10
>
> into my .bash_pro
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