: A mail script for those of us who have distributed mail, and not
: host-delivered mail.....  Like Iowa State
:
on ^timer * exec -name mail msgchk -nonotify nomail

on ^timer * {
    @ foo = pipe(msgchk -nonotify nomail)
    if (foo) {
        if ((num = word(2 $foo)) != oldmail) {
                echo *** You have new email \(Total of $num\)
                @ oldmail = num
        } 
    } {
        @ oldmail = 0
    }
}