On Sun, Feb 14, 2021 at 11:24:59AM +1100, Cameron Simpson wrote: > On 13Feb2021 19:29, Bhaskar Chowdhury wrote: >> How?? Show us...share with the people .. > > I collect my email with getmail, deliver to my local "+spool" mail > folder, a Maildir (~/mail/spool). > > I filter my messages using mailfer: > > https://pypi.org/project/cs.app.mailfiler/ > > which monitors multiple Maildirs for new messages, and files them > according to per-folder rules.
Nice. I've bookmarked this as a procmail alternative :) > The desktop popup comes from my "alert"r script: > > https://hg.sr.ht/~cameron-simpson/css/browse/bin/alert?rev=tip > > That will issue alerts to a variety of places depending on envvars and > options particularly my dlog (a timestamped text log I use for > reviewing things, since my invoicing system is a ghastly hack held > together with string) and to the desktop. > > The "desktop alert" part of that script is in the $to_desktop > if-statement at the bottom. Presently I'm on a Mac and use the > "terminal-notifier" command to issue a normal Mac Notification popup. > I'd be using whatever Linux desktop notification command line were > suitable were I on Linux. > > I presume there _is_ a standard way to issue a popup alert on Linux > systems these days? I used to just always run a permanent very short > full-width terminal across the top of the screen tailing a log file > myself, crude but effective. The same terminal also accepted commands > if you typed them. This is an interesting bunch of workarounds. Again, thank you for sharing :) -- A: When it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: When is top-posting a bad thing? () ASCII ribbon campaign. Please avoid HTML emails & proprietary /\ file formats. (Why? See e.g. https://v.gd/jrmGbS ). Thank you.
