On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 08:30:12PM +0100, Chris Davies wrote:
> Mike McClain wrote:
> > -bash: biff: command not found
> >But something is sending 'You have mail in /var/mail/mike' often
> > in the middle of me typing a commandline or editing a file which
Thanks, Bob.
Both MAIL & MAILCHECK are set in the environment but I have set
MAILCHECK=0 in .bashrc which ought to solve the problem. I've yet to
find where it's set though in Squeeze.
Much obliged,
Mike
On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 12:34:15PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Mike McClain wrote:
> >
Mike McClain wrote:
> -bash: biff: command not found
>But something is sending 'You have mail in /var/mail/mike' often
> in the middle of me typing a commandline or editing a file which can
> be most disconcerting & annoying
Just a guess.. do you have postfix inst
Mike McClain wrote:
> But something is sending 'You have mail in /var/mail/mike' often
> in the middle of me typing a commandline or editing a file which can
> be most disconcerting & annoying. I get these messages even when the
> mail is old mail I just haven't thrown away yet.
> Can so
I installed a minimal system and there is no 'biff'.
mike@/deb60:~> biff
-bash: biff: command not found
But something is sending 'You have mail in /var/mail/mike' often
in the middle of me typing a commandline or editing a file which can
be most disconcerting
On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 05:08:55PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote:
> productivity by factors! Aside, xbuffy can do it all for you if you
> wish.
I'd never heard of the buffy/biffy/biff programs before. I've found gbuffy and
xbuffy. I'm wondering if there's an equivalen
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> Is there a mail arrival notifier which can monitor one's mailboxes on
> a remote host's IMAP spool? (using gnus to read mail from the remote
> hosts and locally from /var/mail/user).
fetchmail in check-only mode will do that.
Jason
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Is there a mail arrival notifier which can monitor one's mailboxes on a remote
host's IMAP spool? (using gnus to read mail from the remote hosts and
locally from /var/mail/user).
Thanks very much,
rb
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on Sun, 23 Feb 2003 10:30:29PM -0800, Vineet Kumar insinuated:
> * Nori Heikkinen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030222 14:47]:
> > does anyone know of a command-line version of some biff or buffy or
> > whatever (mail notification program)? i just wrote a little shell
> > script to
* Nori Heikkinen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030222 14:47]:
> does anyone know of a command-line version of some biff or buffy or
> whatever (mail notification program)? i just wrote a little shell
> script to do it, that uses the xbuffy boxfile, but i was wondering if
> there were packag
on Sun, 23 Feb 2003 09:44:37PM -0500, Matthew Weier O'Phinney insinuated:
> -- Nori Heikkinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
> (on Sunday, 23 February 2003, 02:21 PM -0500):
> > on Sun, 23 Feb 2003 07:02:37PM +0100, Marcio Rosa da Silva insinuated:
> > > Maybe I don't get the point, but aren't the 'MAIL
-- Nori Heikkinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
(on Sunday, 23 February 2003, 02:21 PM -0500):
> on Sun, 23 Feb 2003 07:02:37PM +0100, Marcio Rosa da Silva insinuated:
> > Maybe I don't get the point, but aren't the 'MAIL' and 'MAILCHECK'
> > vars in bash or 'mail' in tcsh for this?
>
> I didn't know
on Sun, 23 Feb 2003 07:02:37PM +0100, Marcio Rosa da Silva insinuated:
> Maybe I don't get the point, but aren't the 'MAIL' and 'MAILCHECK'
> vars in bash or 'mail' in tcsh for this?
I didn't know about these, but they don't seem to be what i want ...
MAIL If this parameter is set to
on Sun, 23 Feb 2003 06:45:07PM +0100, Ismael Valladolid Torres insinuated:
> On Sun, Feb 23, 2003 at 11:38:29AM -0500, Nori Heikkinen wrote:
> > does anyone know of a command-line version of some biff or buffy
> > or whatever (mail notification program)?
>
> Why not just put
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Maybe I don't get the point, but aren't the 'MAIL' and 'MAILCHECK' vars in
bash or 'mail' in tcsh for this?
Ok, if you use them you need to press ENTER to get the notify, but if
you're using the shell it works.
Marcio
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On Sun, Feb 23, 2003 at 11:38:29AM -0500, Nori Heikkinen wrote:
> does anyone know of a command-line version of some biff or buffy
> or whatever (mail notification program)?
Why not just putting the path to your mailbox in the MAILPATH
environment variable?
Search for MAILPATH in th
On Sun, Feb 23, 2003 at 11:38:29AM -0500, Nori Heikkinen wrote:
> > take a look at mailstat (comes w/procmail), which might do
> > something along the lines of what you're interested in.
>
> this only uses procmail logs, though, right? and i can't see how to
> make it tell me just what's *new* in
on Sun, 23 Feb 2003 12:35:05AM -0500, sean finney insinuated:
> On Sat, Feb 22, 2003 at 05:29:36PM -0500, Nori Heikkinen wrote:
> > does anyone know of a command-line version of some biff or buffy
> > or whatever (mail notification program)? i just wrote a little
>
> ta
hey nori,
On Sat, Feb 22, 2003 at 05:29:36PM -0500, Nori Heikkinen wrote:
> does anyone know of a command-line version of some biff or buffy or
> whatever (mail notification program)? i just wrote a little shell
take a look at mailstat (comes w/procmail), which might do something
alo
does anyone know of a command-line version of some biff or buffy or
whatever (mail notification program)? i just wrote a little shell
script to do it, that uses the xbuffy boxfile, but i was wondering if
there were packages out there for that purpose.
i want this because often i'm logged in
on Fri, 01 Nov 2002 01:15:45AM +, Karl E. Jorgensen insinuated:
> On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 01:34:34PM -0500, Justin Miller wrote:
> > Also, when I get new mail biff only lets me know what folder it is
> > in. I would like to be able to find out who sent it, when, and
> &
-- Bob Proulx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
(on Thursday, 31 October 2002, 09:14 PM -0700):
> Justin Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-10-30 13:34:34 -0500]:
> >
> > Does anyone know of a good replacement? I would like to be notified
> > of new mail but biff does
Justin Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-10-30 13:34:34 -0500]:
>
> Does anyone know of a good replacement? I would like to be notified
> of new mail but biff does this in a very inelegant way. For example,
> if I am in vi it will spam my screen. Also, when I get new mail biff
&
-- Karl E. Jorgensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
(on Friday, 01 November 2002, 01:15 AM +):
> On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 01:34:34PM -0500, Justin Miller wrote:
> >
> > Does anyone know of a good replacement? I would like to be notified of new mail
> > but biff does t
On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 01:34:34PM -0500, Justin Miller wrote:
>
> Does anyone know of a good replacement? I would like to be notified of new mail
> but biff does this in a very inelegant way. For example, if I am in vi it will
> spam my screen.
What about a sound? A "boing&quo
On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 01:34:34PM -0500, Justin Miller wrote:
> Does anyone know of a good replacement? I would like to be notified of
> new mail but biff does this in a very inelegant way. For example, if I
> am in vi it will spam my screen. Also, when I get new mail biff only
>
Does anyone know of a good replacement? I would like to be notified of new mail
but biff does this in a very inelegant way. For example, if I am in vi it will
spam my screen. Also, when I get new mail biff only lets me know what folder it
is in. I would like to be able to find out who sent it
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Hi,
I'm trying to figure out why my icmplogs are showing UDP connections
whenever my system recieve email. The connections are on UDP port 512.
I'm using sendmail from woody as my MTA. It makes no difference whether or
not biff is installed.
the log reads:
Mar 21 21:16:37 sx
I suspect the reason for this is that you have a daemon which listens
to netbios-ns port already running when you (re)start your (x)inetd.
The culprit in question is probably nmbd which is part of samba
distribution.
Does the problem go away if you do these things?
1. first shut down your (x)
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> Date: Mon, 2 Nov 1998 12:36:26 -0800 (PST)
> Subject: biff and comsat don't work
>
> I'm having a tough time getting biff to work properly. I have the
> following line in my /etc/services:
>
> biff512/udp com
I'm having a tough time getting biff to work properly. I have the
following line in my /etc/services:
biff512/udp comsat
and the following section in my /etc/xinetd.conf:
service comsat
{
socket_type = dgram
protocol= udp
On: Thu, 9 Jul 1998 16:40:01 -0500 (CST) servis writes:
>
> Hi all,
> I am looking for a biff type program that counts the number of new
> messages in a file and continuously updates its display. I would
> prefer a X based program. Does anything like this exist? I would
> l
On Thu, Jul 09, 1998 at 04:40:01PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I am looking for a biff type program that counts the number of new
> messages in a file and continuously updates its display. I would prefer
> a X based program. Does anything like this exist
Greets,
> I am looking for a biff type program that counts the number of new
> messages in a file and continuously updates its display. I would prefer
> a X based program. Does anything like this exist? I would like to
> use this to keep track of all the mailing lists that I subs
On Thu, Jul 09, 1998 at 04:40:01PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I am looking for a biff type program that counts the number of new
> messages in a file and continuously updates its display. I would prefer
> a X based program. Does anything like this exist
Hi all,
I am looking for a biff type program that counts the number of new
messages in a file and continuously updates its display. I would prefer
a X based program. Does anything like this exist? I would like to
use this to keep track of all the mailing lists that I subscribe to and
are
In order to get it to work, I copied the bl program to my home directory
and made it suid to root (only I can access that directory). Then, I made
a simple script to run bl and kill it after one minute..
--- newmail ---
#!/bin/sh
killall bl
~paul/bin/bl -S tty0
sleep 60
killall bl
--- eof ---
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write:
>
>I have a program called 'bl' that does make the keyboard lights blink, but
>it only works if I'm logged on and I'm using the same tty as where it was
>executed -- ie, "sleep 3; bl -c console" doesn't work when I switch to
>another VC before sleep expires
-Original Message-
From: Thomas Lakofski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Paul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: Debian User
Date: Friday, 1 May 1998 03:13:pm
Subject: Re: biff/new mail - blink LED indicators on keyboard
>You might want to try this instead:
>
>http://l
. who knows.
>
>
> On Thu, 30 Apr 1998, Paul Miller wrote:
>
> >
> > ... I don't see how that would work as a new mail/biff type program...
> > are you saying that i should run that program when I have new mail?
> >
> > -Paul
> >
> > On
No, I'm saying it might help you, maybe you can modify it to check your
mail every couple o fminutes and have it blink... who knows.
On Thu, 30 Apr 1998, Paul Miller wrote:
>
> ... I don't see how that would work as a new mail/biff type program...
> are you saying tha
... I don't see how that would work as a new mail/biff type program...
are you saying that i should run that program when I have new mail?
-Paul
On Thu, 30 Apr 1998, Plutonically Incorrect wrote:
> There is a program called TLedz (or Tleds) that would monitor any TCP
> stack (eth0
There is a program called TLedz (or Tleds) that would monitor any TCP
stack (eth0, ppp0, etc) and have the lights blink to the console even if
you were logged off. You could it up so that it would blink and stay lit
at a given mS, each blink would correspond to a tcp packet coming in...
I dont
L PROTECTED]>
> To: Debian User
> Date: Thu, 30 Apr 1998 22:19:31 -0400 (EDT)
> Subject: biff/new mail - blink LED indicators on keyboard
>
>
> Anyone know how I could have a cool LED animation when new mail arrives
> (when I'm logged in or not)? Something like a bounci
Anyone know how I could have a cool LED animation when new mail arrives
(when I'm logged in or not)? Something like a bouncing effect for the
first couple seconds and then have the scroll lock blink once every five
minutes or so...
I have a program called 'bl' that does make the keyboard lights
On Thu, 19 Feb 1998, Tim Sailer wrote:
> John Spence wrote:
> >
> > Does biff in bo work
> > coz it biffin doesn't beep
> > an if biff in bo is broke
> > then biff in bo I will delete
> >
> > I've tried biff in bo with 'y'
>
On Thu, 19 Feb 1998, Tim Sailer wrote:
> Heh.. thanks for the laugh.. I needed it today. But, yes, bo's biff is busted.
>
Nice rhyme... but actually biff does work if you use procmail as your MDA
instead of deliver (at least with sendmail). Send me mail if you want to
know the det
John Spence wrote:
>
> Does biff in bo work
> coz it biffin doesn't beep
> an if biff in bo is broke
> then biff in bo I will delete
>
> I've tried biff in bo with 'y'
> I've tried biff in bo with '-y'
> no biffin output does it sh
Does biff in bo work
coz it biffin doesn't beep
an if biff in bo is broke
then biff in bo I will delete
I've tried biff in bo with 'y'
I've tried biff in bo with '-y'
no biffin output does it show
so poor wee biff is gonna go.
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On Fri, 3 Oct 1997, Tommy Lakofski wrote:
> this should probably be in debian-devel... however: biff seems to have
> been broken in the last round of hamm changes, and the developer's email
> address listed in the package bounces. what's the procedure in these
> cases?
Y
this should probably be in debian-devel... however: biff seems to have
been broken in the last round of hamm changes, and the developer's email
address listed in the package bounces. what's the procedure in these
cases?
thanks,
TL
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Hi,
If you use mailagent, then change the line in ~/.mailagent
from:
# Biffing support
biff : OFF # Whether biff is wanted
to
# Biffing support
biff : ON # Whether biff is wanted
Then you get biff like messages, but you can configure
Biff may be obsolete, but if you use X try xbuffy. It's VERY nice. I
use procmail to automatically sort mail to a set of folders (currently
36), and xbuffy monitors them all continuously, showing in inverted
video those who have new msgs. and the number of them. If you click on
the box o
Hi,
> Has anyone successfully managed to get biff to work in debian? i know
> there's some interaction with comsat, but i never worked out where comsat
> got messages from (something to do with procmail? ). FYI, using
> latest unstable sendmail as MTA.
I love biff. I do not
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
The lady who wrote biff now works here at Pixar. Biff was named after
her dog (long dead).
Biff set an otherwise-unused execute permission bit on your terminal
device (/dev/tty??) which told comsat that you wanted to be informed
about new mail. Comsat did all of the work. I think that comsat just
Has anyone successfully managed to get biff to work in debian? i know
there's some interaction with comsat, but i never worked out where comsat
got messages from (something to do with procmail? ). FYI, using
latest unstable sendmail as MTA.
Many thanks for any assistance.
TL
> I chose to just change the ling in sendmail that points to procmail,
> since I don't regenerate sendmail.cf very often. The symlink would
> work too, though.
Hi,
thanks again for your response.
I chose the symlink method because I generate sendmail.cf very often.
It works great.
As you know,
ing like that. Just install
biff and uncomment the comsat line in /etc/inetd.conf
and you're on your way.
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On Tue, 10 Dec 1996, Eloy A. Paris wrote:
>
> All this introduction is to ask if someone knows a way of getting a
> sendmail based system to notify comsat of new mail arrival. Does any
> one know of a patch for deliver or another MDA that can work with
> sendmail?
>
sendmail inconjuntion with p
Hi,
I really miss the biff utility in my Debian system that is running sendmail.
After a long search I found out that is the local mail delivery agent
the responsible to notify comsat of the arrival of new mail. Then, comsat
displays asynchronously a notification of new mail.
Since I am using
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