WNEWMAIL(1L)WNEWMAIL(1L)NAMEwnewmail - daemon to asynchronously notify of new mail
SYNOPSISwnewmail
wnewmail filename
DESCRIPTION
Wnewmail is a daemon designed to run in a window on a win
dowing system (such as an HP or Sun system) and check
every 10 seconds to see if there is any new mail for the
user that started it up.
If there is new mail, the program will "beep", and write
to the window for each of the new messages;
Mail from <name> -- <subject>
where <name> is either the name of the person sending it,
if available (the ARPA 'From:' line) or machine!login
where machine is the machine the mail was sent from. If
there is no subject, the message "<no subject>" will
appear on the screen.
If the message is a priority message (that is, the header
contains a line "Priority:"), then the line output will be
"PRIORITY mail from ..." rather than just "Mail from".
This program will run forever, and can internally reset
itself if mail is deleted from the incoming mailbox while
trying to monitor it.
If wnewmail is started up with a filename, it will perform
exactly the same, but with the specified file as the one
to check rather than the default users mailbox.
AUTHOR
Elm Development Group
SEE ALSO
notify in sh(1) or csh(1), newmail(1L)NOTE
This is almost identical to the program newmail...
BUG REPORTS TO
Bill Pemberton flash@virginia.edu
COPYRIGHTS
Copyright 1988-1995 by The USENET Community Trust
Derived from Elm 2.0, Copyright 1986, 1987 by Dave Taylor
USENET Community Trust Elm Version 2.5 1
