new mail notification

Eric S. Raymond eric at snark.thyrsus.com
Tue Nov 6 02:20:31 AEST 1990


In <4464 at iitmax.IIT.EDU> David William Vrona wrote:
> I would like to be able to get notification of NEW mail, i.e. not read yet,
> whenever I login to my unix machine.  I am running 386ix v2.02.  Are the tools
> already in place to do this or do I need something else?  Thanks.

You should get this from the mail check already in place in your .profile file.
-- 
      Eric S. Raymond = eric at snark.thyrsus.com  (mad mastermind of TMN-Netnews)



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