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NAME
       notify - notify user of the arrival of new mail

SYNOPSIS
       notify -y [ -m mailfile ]
       notify [ -n ]

DESCRIPTION
       When a new mail message arrives, the mail command first checks if the
       recipient's mailbox indicates that the message is to be forwarded
       elsewhere (to some other recipient or as the input to some command).
       notify is used to set up forwarding on the user's mailbox so that the
       new message is saved into an alternative mailbox and, if the user is
       currently logged in, he or she is notified immediately of the arrival
       of new mail.

       Command-line options are:
       -m mailfile File to save mail messages into while automatic
                   notification is activated.  If not specified, it defaults
                   to $HOME/.mailfile.
       -n          Remove mail notification facility
       -y          Install mail notification facility

       If invoked with no arguments, notify reports whether automatic mail
       notification is activated or not.

       The notification is done by looking in /var/adm/utmp to determine if
       the recipient is currently logged in, and if so, on which terminal
       device.  Then the terminal device is opened for writing and the user
       is notified about the new message.  The notification will indicate
       who the message is from.  If the message contains a Subject: header
       line it will be included.  (For security, all unprintable characters
       within the header will be converted to an exclamation point.)

       If the user is logged in multiple times he or she will get multiple
       notifications, one per terminal.  To disable notifications to a
       particular login session, the mesg(1) command can be used to disable
       writing to that terminal.

       If there are multiple machines connected together via RFS or NFS,
       notify will look up the /var/adm/utmp files on the other systems as
       well.  To do this, the file /etc/mail/notify.sys will be consulted,
       which will contain two columns, the first being the name of a system
       and the second being a path to find the root filesystem for that
       machine.

       If notify has troubles delivering the mail to the specified mailfile,
       notify will look up the directory of the mailfile in
       /etc/mail/notify.fsys.  If the file's directory is found in the first
       column of the file, the mail will be forwarded to the system listed
       in the second column instead of being returned to the sender.

FILES
       /tmp/notif*             temporary file



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       /var/mail/*             users' standard mailboxes
       /usr/lib/mail/notify2   program that performs the notification
       /etc/mail/notify.fsys   list of file systems and home systems
       /etc/mail/notify.sys    list of machines and paths to their root
                               filesystems
       /var/adm/utmp           list of users who are logged in

SEE ALSO
       mail(1), mesg(1).
       User's Guide.

NOTES
       Because notify uses the ``Forward to | command'' facility of mail to
       implement notifications, /var/mail/username should not be specified
       as the place to put newly arrived messages via the -m invocation
       option.  The mail command uses /var/mail/username to hold either mail
       messages, or indications of mail forwarding, but not both
       simultaneously.

       If the user is using layers(1), the notification will only appear in
       the login window.




































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