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Article #8159Re: Finding out when new mail has arrived
From: John Robinson
Date: Mon, 19 Dec 1988 15:59
Date: Mon, 19 Dec 1988 15:59
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In article <1466@zen.UUCP>, vic@zen (Victor Gavin) writes:
>
>Is it possible for GNU emacs to notify me whenever I have new mail in my
>mailbox ?
In article <8812180059.AA04299@nucst4.neep.wisc.edu>, simmons@nucst4 (kim h simmons) writes:
>I think that the word 'Mail' appears in the mode line if there is mail
>that you have not read yet.
... provided you have called (display-time), typically from your
.emacs file. This in turn runs the program emacs/etc/ loadst, which
uses the environment variable MAIL if set to know where to look,
otherwise it defaults to /usr/spool/mail/${USER} for BSD,
/usr/mail/${LOGNAME} for USG, or /usr/spool/mail/${LOGNAME} for Xenix.
--
/jr
jr@bbn.com or bbn!jr
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!unmvax!gatech!bbn!jr@bbn.com From: jr@bbn.com (John Robinson) Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: Re: Finding out when new mail has arrived Message-ID: <33652@bbn.COM> Date: 19 Dec 88 15:59:35 GMT References: <1466@zen.UUCP> <8812180059.AA04299@nucst4.neep.wisc.edu> Sender: news@bbn.COM Reply-To: jr@bbn.com (John Robinson) Organization: BBN Systems and Technologies Corporation, Cambridge MA Lines: 17 In-reply-to: simmons@nucst4.neep.wisc.EDU (kim h simmons)