newmail(1)newmail(1)NAMEnewmail - notify users of new mail in mailboxes
SYNOPSIS
interval] [file-spec]...
DESCRIPTION
The utility monitors your incoming mailbox or specified mail folders.
The basic operation is that the program checks the folders each inter‐
val seconds (default 60) and lists any new mail that has arrived in any
of the mailboxes, indicating the sender's name, and the subject of the
message.
Without any options, runs in the background at a default interval of 60
seconds to monitor the user's incoming mailbox. So that they are suit‐
able for display on an already active screen, messages are prefixed
with a pair of pointer characters as follows:
If there is no subject, the message is displayed. If there is more
than one folder, output lines are prefixed by the folder-name or the
prefix string specified by file-spec.
runs until you log out or explicitly kill it. It can internally reset
itself if the mailbox shrinks in size and then grows again.
Options
recognizes the following options:
Set the time interval between mailbox checks
to the value specified, in seconds. The default
is 60.
interval must be less than 2^32 seconds. If it
is set to less than 10 seconds, warns that such
short intervals are not recommended.
Run the program within the current window in the foreground
with a more succinct output format.
The output formats become:
Operands
recognizes the following operand:
file-spec Specifies the name of a folder and an optional
prefix string, in the form:
Metacharacters such as and indicate the folder
directory. The default is the value of the envi‐
ronment variable or
EXAMPLES
Check incoming mailbox every 60 seconds:
Check incoming mailboxes of and every 15 seconds for new messages.
Monitor the incoming mailbox of user and the folder in your mail direc‐
tory called Prefix all new messages in the incoming mailbox of with the
string and the new messages in the folder with Also, monitor folder
AUTHOR
was developed by HP.
newmail(1)
