WNEWMAIL(1L)        USENET Community Trust(Elm Version 2.3)        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 windowing 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
      Dave Taylor, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories.

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 1986, 1987 by Dave Taylor
      © Copyright 1988, 1989, 1990 by The USENET Community Trust






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