How To Install In.comsat On Debian, Ubuntu, Kali And Raspbian?

in.comsat

a mail notification tool

Maintainer: Dave Holland

Email: [email protected] .

Section: mail

Install in.comsat

Debian apt-get install biff Click to copy
Ubuntu apt-get install biff Click to copy
Kali Linux apt-get install biff Click to copy
Raspbian apt-get install biff Click to copy

biff

a mail notification tool

biff is a small program that prints a message to your terminal when new email arrives. Actually, the message is printed by the comsat daemon, and biff just enables/disables the u+x permission flag for the terminal, which comsat uses to determine whether or not to write to your terminal. biff is mainly of historic interest, since there are much better alternatives (such as xlbiff and gbuffy) that are network-aware and do not require a daemon. Although there are no known security problems, running additional services is often considered risky. By default, the biff service is disabled. To use biff email notification, you must enable this service by running 'update-inetd --enable biff' after the package is installed. You may also need to modify the configuration of your mail transport agent to enable comsat notification.

Install the latest version of in.comsat in Debian, Ubuntu, Kali and Raspbian from terminal. To install the in.comsat just copy the above command for your OS and run into terminal. After you run the command it will grab the latest version of in.comsat from the respository and install it in your computer/server.