On 10:02 Fri 03 Mar , Wes Gray wrote: > On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 02:36:37PM +0530, Masood Ahmed wrote: > > Hi, > > I have a email system comprising of fetchmail, to fetchmail mail > > from pop servers. Procmail, to filter the incoming mail and mutt to read > > it. > > Now what i want to know is, is there some way so that i can make > > bash display "You've a new mail" everytime i log in? I dont store my email > > in default place (/var/mail) but in my home directory. Kindly please help. > > You want to set MAILPATH in .bashrc. man bash and search for MAILPATH.
I set the MAILPATH in .bashrc as MAILPATH='~/Mail/Gentoo-User:~/Mail/Gentoo-Announce' but still when i login no message notifying me of new mail is displayed. The list is long so, some mbox's have not yet been created.. Does it has anything to do? > > -Wes > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
