On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 09:41:46PM +0200, Rocco Rutte wrote:
> * Paul Stoeber [02-06-24 21:27:06 +0200] wrote:
> > Have the pros and cons of an external mail notification
> > program already been discussed on the lists?
>
> Hmm, what about biff and comsat allthough it doesn't catch
> all your folders at once...
I meant: Have the pros and cons of { having mutt call an external
program when new mail arrives } already been discussed? From Sven's
intense reaction I guess it could have been.
It seems to be useful to be notified of new mail while you spend your tube
time in some program other that mutt, having a permanent mutt in one of
your hidden screens. The existence of the `beep_new' option admits that.
But the method of sending \007 to the terminal has some shortcomings:
it can't distinguish different types of events, and on some terminals
(mine for example) the beep is disabled.
My patch may be featurititis. Does mutt already provide a hook to
implement the feature? Run-foo-command-on-bar-event seems to be
a common automation task.
