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Article #293Re: Finger - My Mail?
From: Richard Howlett
Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2001 21:54
Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2001 21:54
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Gids wrote: > > I believe it is possible to check for new mail from my Demon account > using Finger. I would like to do this but, alas, although I can get my > mail over Telnet, I would like to check it over Finger. Just for > reference I'm using the windows finger client Cyberkit. The host you need to finger is: your_account_name@post.demon.co.uk So you would need: goldfinch@post.demon.co.uk If you are dialled into your Demon account and the finger command you have supports the "long" option you will get to see who the mail is from and its length. -- Richard Howlett mailto:richard@howie.org.uk
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