Announce new mail the moment it arrives
in .qmail: |qbiff
qbiff writes a message to your screen whenever a new mail message is delivered, if you ran biff y after logging in.
WARNING: If you create a .qmail file to enable qbiff, make sure to also add a line specifying delivery to your normal mailbox. For example:
/home/joe/Mailbox |qbiff
biff(1), dot-qmail(5)