On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 5:15 AM, Andreas Gerdd <kryptosnet@gmail.com> wrote:
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> I don't receive 'You have new mail' notifications in the shell anymore.
> How may i enable it again?
>
> #biff
> is n.

biff was a specific form of mail notification that actually resulted
in a daemon (comsat) writing a one-line summary of new messages to
your terminal.  That's *probably* not what you used to be using.  Most
people nowadays use the mail notification features built into their
shell.  Try searching the manpage for your shell (man ksh, man csh,
etc) for 'mail' to get info on the hook for you.


Philip Guenther