WNEWMAIL(1L)                                         WNEWMAIL(1L)


NAME
       wnewmail - daemon to asynchronously notify of new mail

SYNOPSIS
       wnewmail
       wnewmail filename


DESCRIPTION
       Wnewmail is a daemon designed to run in a window on a win-
       dowing system (such as an HP  or  Sun  system)  and  check
       every  10  seconds to see if there is any new mail for the
       user that started it up.

       If there is new mail, the program will "beep",  and  write
       to the window for each of the new messages;

          Mail from <name> -- <subject>

       where  <name> is either the name of the person sending it,
       if available (the  ARPA  'From:'  line)  or  machine!login
       where  machine  is the machine the mail was sent from.  If
       there is no  subject,  the  message  "<no  subject>"  will
       appear on the screen.

       If  the message is a priority message (that is, the header
       contains a line "Priority:"), then the line output will be
       "PRIORITY mail from ..." rather than just "Mail from".

       This  program  will  run forever, and can internally reset
       itself if mail is deleted from the incoming mailbox  while
       trying to monitor it.

       If wnewmail is started up with a filename, it will perform
       exactly the same, but with the specified file as  the  one
       to check rather than the default users mailbox.

AUTHOR
       Elm Development Group

SEE ALSO
       notify in sh(1) or csh(1), newmail(1L)

NOTE
       This is almost identical to the program newmail...

BUG REPORTS TO
       Syd Weinstein  elm@DSI.COM    (dsinc!elm)

COPYRIGHTS
       Copyright 1988-1992 by The USENET Community Trust
       Derived from Elm 2.0,  Copyright 1986, 1987 by Dave Taylor





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