Automatic notification of new mail
You can configure your environment so that you are notified
whenever new mail is sent to you, even if you are not in mail.
To do this, set the MAIL shell variable to the pathname
of your system mailbox. For example, if you
are using the Bourne or Korn shells, you might set:
$ MAIL=/usr/spool/mail/login
$ export MAIL
You must set the mail
shell variable if you are using the C shell:
$ setenv mail /usr/spool/mail/login
For details on how to set environment variables, see
``Setting environment variables''.
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