biff

Guy Harris guy at auspex.UUCP
Fri Nov 4 03:40:25 AEST 1988


>I know I can send mail(1) to a full path name instead of
>to a login name. How can I get biff(1) to watch for mail sent
>to a pathname instead to user at machine ???

Well, you can modify "sendmail" to notify the "comsat" daemon whenever
it stuffs mail into a file - assuming you can figure out which user to
notify (perhaps the owner of the file?)

You can't do it with the vanilla software, however.



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