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newmail(1) newmail(1)
NAME
newmail - notify users of new mail in mailboxes
SYNOPSIS
newmail [-i interval ][-w
][file-spec ]...
DESCRIPTION
The
newmail utility monitors your incoming mailbox or specified mail folders.
The basic operation is that the program checks the folders each interval 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,
newmail runs in the background at a default interval of 60 seconds to monitor the
user’s incoming mailbox. So that they are suitable for display on an already active screen, messages are
prefixed with a pair of pointer characters as follows:
>> Mail from sender-name - subject-of-message
>> Priority sender-name - subject-of-message
If there is no subject, the message
(No Subject Specified) 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 .
newmail 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
newmail recognizes the following options:
-i interval 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, newmail
warns that such short intervals are not recommended.
-w Run the program within the current window in the foreground with a more succinct
output format.
The output formats become:
Mail from sender-name - subject-of-message
Priority sender-name - subject-of-message
Operands
newmail recognizes the following operand:
file-spec Specifies the name of a folder and an optional prefix string, in the form:
foldername[
=prefix-string]
Metacharacters such as
+, =, and % indicate the folder directory. The default is the
value of the environment variable MAILDIR or $HOME/Mail.
EXAMPLES
Check incoming mailbox every 60 seconds:
newmail
Check incoming mailboxes of joe and root every 15 seconds for new messages.
newmail -i 15 joe root
Monitor the incoming mailbox of user mary and the folder in your mail directory called postmaster.
Prefix all new messages in the incoming mailbox of mary with the string Mary, and the new messages in
the folder postmaster with POBOX. Also, monitor folder /tmp/mbox:
newmail "mary=Mary" +postmaster=POBOX /tmp/mbox
AUTHOR
newmail was developed by HP.
HP-UX 11i Version 3: September 2010 − 1 − Hewlett-Packard Company 1