In article <[log in to unmask]>, [log in to unmask] u (Micah James Cooper) writes: > Clayton L. Hines ([log in to unmask]) wrote: >> It's always notified me, although I'm sure there's a spiffy way of turning >> it off. Kent, can you lend Micah a hand? > > You can tell how much I use the VAX -- but is there a way to do it > manually like 'messages' per chance? I'm not sure I'm understanding 100% what you're asking for, but it sounds like you want a program to tell you how many new mail messages you have. Is this right? There isn't anything on the system that does this exactly, but you could create something fairly easily. For example, add the following line to your LOGIN.COM files: $ messages == "@sys$login:messages.com" Then create a file called MESSAGES.COM in your login directory that looks like: $ OLDMAIL EXIT This will enter the OLDMAIL program and immediately EXIT. When you enter the OLDMAIL program, it tells you the number of new mail messages. I use the OLDMAIL command here rather than the MAIL command because it's considerably faster. If you want to want to see a listing the new messages you have, you could change the program listed above to be the following: $ OLDMAIL DIR/NEW EXIT -- Kent Covert, Software Coordinator Miami Computing and Information Services Miami University, Oxford, OH [log in to unmask]