I think that bash can do it automaticaly. bash is a 'very good' (IMHO)
shell from GNU, or is that FSF?
Mark
by Mark Johnso » Thu, 19 Jan 1995 02:52:35
Mark
by srini.. » Fri, 20 Jan 1995 03:13:55
try "newmail -i x" where x is any number of seconds, the gap between mail daemonQuote:>How can I tell the shell to warn me when new mail arrives,
>not just as often as when .cshrc is being invoked ?
>I was thinking of piping the mail to the echo command like :
>"|/usr/bin/echo 'New mail has arrived'"
>but it doesn't work.
>Anyone knows ?
>Jean-Marc
1. Communicator 4.0b5 audio alert on mail arrival
<HTML>
<UL>
<UL>Has anybody had any luck with sounding the audio alert upon arrival
of new mail?
<P>I configured Preferences accordingly, but never hear any sound when
new mail arrives.
<P>Any suggestions welcome.
<BR></UL>
</UL>
</HTML>
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