From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 16 20:33:27 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA28250 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 16 Sep 1998 20:33:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from icicle.winternet.com (icicle.winternet.com [198.174.169.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA28119 for ; Wed, 16 Sep 1998 20:32:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nrahlstr@mail.winternet.com) Received: (from adm@localhost) by icicle.winternet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA08550; Wed, 16 Sep 1998 22:31:56 -0500 (CDT) Received: from tundra.winternet.com(198.174.169.11) by icicle.winternet.com via smap (V2.0) id xma008520; Wed, 16 Sep 98 22:31:48 -0500 Received: from localhost (nrahlstr@localhost) by tundra.winternet.com (8.8.7/8.8.4) with SMTP id WAA03931; Wed, 16 Sep 1998 22:31:46 -0500 (CDT) X-Authentication-Warning: tundra.winternet.com: nrahlstr owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 22:31:46 -0500 (CDT) From: Nathan Ahlstrom Reply-To: nrahlstr@FreeBSD.ORG To: Peter Whybrow cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: email notification In-Reply-To: <01BDE233.1271CFA0@peter> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Does anyone know of an email notification program that will work accross > a network? ie the mail arrives on the BSD box and the notifyer messages > to someone using a DG box? What I usually do is run xhost + (only on a secure network) on my X terminal. Then on the remote machine (BSD box in your case) run xbiff -display :0.0 & Each time new mail arrives the flag on the mailbox icon goes up. :) Good Luck, Nathan Nathan Ahlstrom nrahlstr@winternet.com Run FreeBSD: http://www.freebsd.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message