Source: biff Standards-Version: 4.7.2 Maintainer: Debian QA Group Section: mail Priority: optional Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 13), cmake, Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/debian/biff Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/debian/biff.git Homepage: https://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/misc/linux.org.uk/people/linux/Networking/netkit/ Package: biff Architecture: any Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, openbsd-inetd | inet-superserver, Description: 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.