Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2021 14:54:39 -0400 From: Kurt Hackenberg <kh@panix.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: monitoring incoming mailbox in console mode Message-ID: <9ba099f4-ce0d-9611-d2c1-08967d8ddbaa@panix.com> In-Reply-To: <20210908124536.GA17@sh4-5.1blu.de> References: <20210908124536.GA17@sh4-5.1blu.de>
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On 2021/09/08 08:45, Matthias Apitz wrote: > I want to monitor my mailbox below /var/mail/... when the system is only > running in console mode, i.e. w/o X11 and KDE desktop. On new mail, i.e. > when the last modified date of the mbox file is changing, it should > produce the normal BEL signal. Do we have something in ports before I > write my own script? Shells can check for new mail, though they don't ring the bell. Csh uses the shell variable "mail"; bash uses MAIL, MAILCHECK, and MAILPATH. See the man pages.
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