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Article #1522Mail reception notification in 'csh'.
From: Francis Demierre
Date: Thu, 05 Jan 1989 12:16
Date: Thu, 05 Jan 1989 12:16
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I'm having a little problem with notification of new mail
arrival (Aix 2.2 is used).
I have two userid's on the machine for different tasks, one is 'fd1'
and the other is 'fd2'. The different login described here are for
'fd1'.
At the first few days, I was using the 'Bourne shell' as my login shell
and had the following setup in my '.profile' script:
MAILMSG="[New mail has arrived]^G"
MAIL=/usr/mail/$LOGNAME # mailbox location
MAILPATH=$MAIL'%[^GNEW MAIL FOR fd1^G]:/usr/mail/fd2%[^GNEW MAIL FOR fd2^G]'
MAILCHECK=60
export MAILMSG MAIL MAILPATH MAILCHECK
This worked perfectly and I was notified when new mail arrived for me.
Then, I changed my login shell to be '/bin/csh' and included the
following in my '.login' script:
setenv MAILMSG "[New mail has arrived]^G"
setenv MAIL /usr/mail/$LOGNAME # mailbox location
setenv MAILPATH $MAIL'%[^GNEW MAIL FOR fd1^G]:/usr/mail/fd2%[^GNEW MAIL FOR fd2^G]'
setenv MAILCHECK 60
Since that time, I never get notified when new mail arrives for me.
Is the 'mail check' only supported by the '/bin/sh' program ? Am I missing
something in my '.login' script ? Are there different environment varibles
for this in 'csh' ?
Any help will be appreciated. Thanks.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!cernvax!hslrswi!francis From: francis@hslrswi.UUCP (Francis Demierre) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt Subject: Mail reception notification in 'csh'. Keywords: mail,MAILMSG,MAILCHECK Message-ID: <873@hslrswi.UUCP> Date: 5 Jan 89 12:16:30 GMT Organization: Hasler AG, CH-3000 Berne 14, Switzerland Lines: 39