Getting "deliver" and "biff" to work together (repost)

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1 total messages Started by Greg Jumper Wed, 11 Nov 1992 16:44

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Author: Greg Jumper
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 16:44

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[I canceled the previous post because I forgot to include version information;
I hope you aren't seeing this again...]

I have been experimenting with using "deliver" to filter my mail.  However,
when my delivery file causes a message to be delivered to my standard mailbox,
the "comsat" daemon does not "notice" the new message and notify me.  Since
the point of this exercise is to filter the low-priority mail, what *does* get
put in my mailbox should be (relatively) important, so I'd certainly like to
be notified when it arrives :-).  Is there some way to make "deliver", "biff",
and "comsat" work together naturally?

I realize that I can perform the notification myself from my delivery file,
but that seems like a poor integration of the tools.  Does "binmail" alert
"comsat", and, if so, can I somehow get "binmail" back in the loop without
causing an infinite loop via my ".forward" file?

(By the way, this is deliver 2.1.10 under SunOS 4.1.3 with stock "subsidiary"
"sendmail.cf".)
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                                       Thanks,

                                       Greg Jumper
                                       TRW Signal Processing Facility
                                       jumper@spf.trw.com

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