Where does mail info come from in finger ?
Ed Wright
edw at sequent.UUCP
Mon Jun 17 15:25:52 AEST 1991
In article <1669 at fs1.ee.ubc.ca> tibors at ee.ubc.ca (tibor szikszai) writes:
%
%I looked at the source for finger, but I couldn't find anything that
%seems to be checking any files for whether the person being fingered
%has mail or not. So I am curious about how things like "No unread
%mail." or "New mail received ... Unread since ..." or "Mail last read ..."
%get printed. Does anybody know? Is another daemon doing this job?
The mail info is just a check of mtime and atime on the user's mail box.
I don't recall ever getting that information back from finger however.
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