From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 2 15:00:23 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA29490 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 2 Feb 1998 15:00:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from jaguar.ir.miami.edu (jaguar.ir.miami.edu [129.171.32.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA29451 for ; Mon, 2 Feb 1998 15:00:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcus@miami.edu) Received: from localhost by jaguar.ir.miami.edu (PMDF V5.1-10 #24029) with SMTP id <0ENR00A01UVSVI@jaguar.ir.miami.edu> for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 2 Feb 1998 17:09:29 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 02 Feb 1998 17:09:28 -0500 (EST) From: "Joe \"Marcus\" Clarke" Subject: Re: they have mail In-reply-to: <19980203085841.36073@welearn.com.au> To: Sue Blake Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG 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 X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe questions" If you have root, modify their .forward files to include the following: \, "| notifyroot | true" Where notifyroot is a little shell script that sends you email. The user or group daemon must be allowed to execute that script, however. Joe Clarke On Tue, 3 Feb 1998, Sue Blake wrote: > I want to be notified (preferably by email) when mail arrives for a couple > of users on my system. This will be a rare event which needs a reasonably > quick response. > > I do not want to receive a copy of their mail, just know about it so I can > advise them. > > Which FM should I be reading? > > -- > > Regards, > -*Sue*- > >