msgchk - check for messages (only available within the
message handling system, mh)
msgchk [-help] [-nodate] [-notify all | | | mail | | |
nomail] [users ... ]
Prints a list of the valid options for this command.
Prints the date when you last read your mail. This is the
default behavior of msgchk. The -nodate option can be used
of you do not want to print this date. Indicates under
what circumstances msgchk should produce a message. There
are three legal values: all, mail, and nomail. The default
is -notify all, which reports the status of the maildrop
regardless of whether it has mail in it or not. The
-notify mail option reports the status of the maildrop
only if there is mail waiting. The -notify nomail option
reports the status of the maildrop only if there is no
mail in it. Specifies the source which are checked for
mail. The only value allowed is file, which is the user's
maildrop. Additional values are supported only for use
with other mail systems.
The msgchk program checks all known mail drops for mail
that is waiting for you. It displays whether you have mail
waiting to be read or not and shows the date that you last
read your mail.
You can check other user's maildrops by specifying their
user names as the users argument on the command line.
msgchk does not understand the $MAILDROP environmental
variable. If mail is fetched from a location other than
/usr/spool/mail/$USER, msgchk will not be able to determine
if new mail has arrived. However, inc can still be
used to fetch mail when it arrives.
For this version, the -source option only supports the
value file. Additional values are supported for use only
with other mail systems.
This example shows a user Smith checking his own maildrop:
% msgchk Smith:
New file source mail waiting ; last read on
Tue, 07 Jun 1988 17:21:49 WET The next example shows a
user checking the maildrops of two other local users on
the same system, Rabb and Jones: % msgchk Rabb Jones Rabb:
No file-source mail waiting ; last read on
Tue, 07 Jun 1997 13:22:25 WET Jones:
New file source mail waiting ; last read on
Tue, 07 Jun 1997 17:30:05 WET
The user profile. The system customization file. The
user's maildrop.
inc(1)
msgchk(1)
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