On Mon, 21 Sep 1998, Lucas Merckelbach wrote:
> Just figured it out how to read mail from a pop3 server. I use fetchmail
> for doing this in combination with pine. There is still one annoying
> problem. Each time when mail arrives I get a message on my screen
> containing the first few lines or so plus more ... Well, nice that the
> compu tells me that new mail arrived, but when I work in f.i. emacs I can't
> get rid of the screen filling, so exit it and restart emacs seems to be the
> only solution. Which program produces the text on screen? Can I turn it
> off, just leaving a beep?
Add to your .login (or .profile or .cshrc, etc..) the command
biff n
This will disable all notification of new mail. Then depending on your
window manager you could use something like wmmail or asmail, etc. (I'm
sure there's others too)
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