3 .\" Copyright 1988 by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
4 .\" All rights reserved. The file /usr/include/zephyr/mit-copyright.h
5 .\" specifies the terms and conditions for redistribution.
7 .TH ZMAILNOTIFY 1 "July 8, 1988" "MIT Project Athena"
8 .ds ]W MIT Project Athena
10 zmailnotify \- retrieve mail headers from post office and transmit via Zephyr
15 connects to the invoking user's POP post office and retrieves the From,
16 To, and Subject fields of waiting messages, and then sends one Zephyr
17 notice per message to class MAIL, instance POPRET, recipient
19 where <user@realm> is the invoking user's username concatenated with the
20 local Zephyr realm (e.g. jruser@ATHENA.MIT.EDU).
23 is intended to be executed by
25 when notifications of spooled mail (such
26 as those generated by \fIzpopnotify(8)\fR) are delivered.
27 By default, these notifications are not delivered, nor are they acted
28 upon. To receive the notices, you must subscribe to class MAIL,
29 instance POP, recipient username@realm (see \fIzctl\fR(1)).
30 Once you subscribe to these notices, by default they will be simply
31 displayed on your display or terminal by
35 executed when they are delivered, you must copy the system default
36 windowgram description file (\fI/usr/athena/lib/zephyr/zwgc.desc\fR) to your home
39 and follow the directions contained in that file pertaining to
43 only retrieves four headers at one time in order to reduce the
44 competition for the mailbox lock on the post office. If more than four mail
47 will only retrieve the four most recent mail headers.
49 To check for mail already waiting when you log in, use the standard MH
54 only sends notification of mail which appears to be unique.
55 Uniqueness is determined by comparing the To:, From:, and Subject:
56 fields of the message with the last checked mail message; if the
57 three fields match exactly, the new message is
58 not considered unique. The To:, From:, and Subject: fields of the last
59 message are stored in the file
64 msgchk(1), zctl(1), zephyr(1), zwgc(1), zhm(8), zephyrd(8),
65 zpopnotify(8), popd(8)
67 Project Athena Technical Plan Section E.4.1, `Zephyr Notification
71 Robert S. French (MIT-Project Athena)
73 Copyright (c) 1987,1988 by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
77 specifies the terms and conditions for redistribution.