"you have new mail"

[Matthew Hills]

I'd like to get behavior similar to the venerable biff:

I'd like to be able to leave a terminal window up, and see the "you have new
mail" messages pop up as the mail comes in.  I'm logged in remotely, so the
graphic-based notificatioin programs won't work.


It appears that the "modern" approach is to use the shell facilities
(e.g., in tcsh:    set mail = (60 /var/spool/mail/$user)         )
However, this only sends the notification out if you enter a dummy command.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Matt