wnewmail(1)                         CLIX                         wnewmail(1)



  NAME

    wnewmail - Notifies the user of new mail

  SYNOPSIS

    wnewmail [filename]

  DESCRIPTION

    The wnewmail command is designed to run in a window on a windowing system
    and check every ten seconds for new mail.

    If there is new mail, wnewmail will beep and display the following
    information to the window for each new message:

    Mail from name -- subject

    The name is either the name of the person sending the mail, or an address
    in the form machine!login, where machine is the name of the machine from
    which the mail was sent.  The subject is the subject of the message.  If
    no subject was specified, the message no subject will be displayed on the
    screen.

    If the message is a priority message (that is, the header contains a
    Priority: line), the line displayed will be PRIORITY mail from ... rather
    than Mail from....

    The wnewmail command is designed to run in a window by itself. The system
    prompt does not reappear unless wnewmail is terminated.  The wnewmail
    command will run indefinitely, and can internally reset itself if mail is
    deleted from the incoming mailbox while wnewmail monitors the mail.  (This
    command can be terminated by keying in the <Ctrl-C> sequence.)

    If wnewmail is started with a specified filename, it will run exactly the
    same way, but will check the specified file rather than the user's default
    mailbox.

  EXAMPLES

    Start the command by entering wnewmail at the system prompt in a window
    that you have already created.  In this example, the user receives mail
    from John Smith, who has the address of john@abc.def.  The subject of the
    message is Meeting at 4:00pm.  Depending on the type of address
    transcription of the user's system, the message line will be displayed in
    one of two forms, as follows.

    ARPAnet format:

    Mail from John Smith--Meeting at 4:00pm




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  wnewmail(1)                         CLIX                         wnewmail(1)



    UUNET format:

    Mail from abcnode!smith--Meeting at 4:00pm


  FILES

    /usr/mail/username   The default mailbox.

    /usr/spool/mail/username
                         The default mailbox with the Sun Elm product.

  NOTES

    The wnewmail command is almost identical to the newmail command.

  EXIT VALUES

    The exit values are not valid.

  RELATED INFORMATION

    Commands: newmail(1), elm(1)































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