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Article #445Re: Can I have nn alert me of incoming mail?
From: Beirne Konarski
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 18:15
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 18:15
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tom@dynamo.ecn.purdue.edu (Tom McCain) writes: >guckes@math.fu-berlin.de (Sven Guckes) writes: >: mrosen@nyx.cs.du.edu (Michael Rosen) writes: >: >Is there a way to have nn alert me of incoming mail like rn does? >: >For instance, when mail comes in, there would just be a "(Mail)" >: >sitting on the status line at the bottom... >: To let nn notify you of new mail just set the variable "mail" to your >: mailbox file within your nn init file ($HOME/.nn/init). >: (Well, I think this does it.) >Nope. >: set mail /var/spool/mail/guckes >This allows you to type ":rmail" and read your new mail messages. It >doesn't notify you of new mail. Yes, it does notify you about new mail. It shows up to the right of the time on the status line. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Beirne Konarski | Reading maketh a full man, conference a beirnek@summitis.com | ready man, and writing an exact man. | -- Francis Bacon
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Newsgroups: news.software.nn Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!rexago8!hc05 From: hc05@rexago8.uucp (Beirne Konarski) Subject: Re: Can I have nn alert me of incoming mail? Message-ID: <1992Dec17.181528.25666@rexago8.uucp> Reply-To: beirnek@summitis.COM Organization: Summit Information Systems References: <1992Dec15.224557.23117@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <A3V9BCV@math.fu-berlin.de> <tom.724545960@dynamo.ecn.purdue.edu> Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 18:15:28 GMT Lines: 29