MSGCHK(1)           RISC/os Reference Manual            MSGCHK(1)



NAME
     msgchk - check for messages

SYNOPSIS
     msgchk [-date] [-nodate] [-notify all/mail/nomail]
          [-nonotify all/mail/nomail] [users ...]  [-help]

DESCRIPTION
     The msgchk program checks all known mail drops for mail
     waiting for you.  For those drops which have mail for you,
     msgchk will indicate if it believes that you have seen the
     mail in question before.

     The `-notify type' switch indicates under what circumstances
     msgchk should produce a message.  The default is
     `-notify all' which says that msgchk should always report
     the status of the users maildrop.  Other values for `type'
     include `mail' which says that msgchk should report the
     status of waiting mail; and, `nomail' which says that msgchk
     should report the status of empty maildrops.  The
     `-nonotify type' switch has the inverted sense, so
     `-nonotify all' directs msgchk to never report the status of
     maildrops.  This is useful if the user wishes to check
     msgchk's exit status.  A non-zero exit status indicates that
     mail was not waiting for at least one of the indicated
     users.

     If msgchk produces output, then the `-date' switch directs
     msgchk to print out the last date mail was read, if this can
     be determined.

FILES
     $HOME/.mh_profile                 The user profile
     /usr/new/lib/mh/mtstailor         tailor file
     /usr/mail/$USER                   Location of mail drop

PROFILE COMPONENTS
     None

SEE ALSO
     inc(1)

DEFAULTS
     `user' defaults to the current user
     `-date'
     `-notify all'

CONTEXT
     None






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