I want to activate the automatic notification of new or incomming mail and
I know that the checking interval can be set using the MAILCHECK
environment variable and the notificationm message can be modified using
the MAILMSG environment variable. It is supposed that the default message
is as follows:
[YOU HAVE NEW MAIL]
But, in spite I have set this two variables, I do not receive the automatic
notification, nor the message.
The message I get, when there is a new message is:
"you have mail in /usr/spool/mail/..."
And the way I set those variables is:
MAIL=/usr/spool/mail/$USER
MAILCHECK=1;export MAILCHECK
MAILMSG="'----->>>>>> NEW MAIL <<<<<<------'";export MAILMSG
Can you tell me what am I missing??
Thank's in advance
Julio Francisco del Rio Martin del Campo
The Kellogg Company
Julio.del-Rio_at_kellogg.com
Received on Fri Mar 07 1997 - 23:52:13 NZDT