Biff may be obsolete, but if you use X try xbuffy. It's VERY nice. I
use procmail to automatically sort mail to a set of folders (currently
36), and xbuffy monitors them all continuously, showing in inverted
video those who have new msgs. and the number of them. If you click on
the box of the
Hi,
If you use mailagent, then change the line in ~/.mailagent
from:
# Biffing support
biff : OFF # Whether biff is wanted
to
# Biffing support
biff : ON # Whether biff is wanted
Then you get biff like messages, but you can configure
Has anyone successfully managed to get biff to work in debian? i know
there's some interaction with comsat, but i never worked out where comsat
got messages from (something to do with procmail? shudder). FYI, using
latest unstable sendmail as MTA.
Many thanks for any assistance.
TL
The lady who wrote biff now works here at Pixar. Biff was named after
her dog (long dead).
Biff set an otherwise-unused execute permission bit on your terminal
device (/dev/tty??) which told comsat that you wanted to be informed
about new mail. Comsat did all of the work. I think that comsat just
Bruce,
Thanks for the information. I don't suppose you'd know of anything which
would perform biff's function without my reinventing a wheel? I know it's
just a question of pressing 'enter' in my open bash terminal to see if i
have new mail, but it'd be nice to be able to leave a terminal open
Hi,
Has anyone successfully managed to get biff to work in debian? i know
there's some interaction with comsat, but i never worked out where comsat
got messages from (something to do with procmail? shudder). FYI, using
latest unstable sendmail as MTA.
I love biff. I do not like to press
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