Mail notifying for console?
I'm looking for a mail notifying program for console that can handle several folders/files. I don't need pop etc. only a program that can check local files. The program from does not work properly. Thanks in advance -- Preben Randhol - Ph.D student - http://www.pvv.org/~randhol/ i too once thought that when proved wrong that i lost somehow - i was hoping, alanis morisette
Re: Mail notifying for console?
On Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 06:20:29PM +0200, Preben Randhol wrote: I'm looking for a mail notifying program for console that can handle several folders/files. I don't need pop etc. only a program that can check local files. The program from does not work properly. If you are using bash, it might be as simple as setting your MAILPATH environment variable. It has the same type of format as the PATH environment variable -- i.e. export MAILPATH=/one/mailbox:/another/mailbox:/and/so/on Hope this helps, Chris -- It is much easier to be critical than to be correct. -- Benjamin Disraeli
notifying
I would like to set it up so I can send an email or some other message from a machine over the net or locally to another user to tell them to log in a check for messages. I know if they are on I can get their attention but a lot of times I would like to have my wife log in when I send her a message that I need to have her look at right away. The computer is usually in ear shot so the sound card or speeker can be trigured. I would love to have it run by an email address so I can do it from anywere. Any ideas?? Brian Schramm [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.linuxexpert.org
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On Fri, 5 Nov 1999, Brian Schramm wrote: I would like to set it up so I can send an email or some other message from a machine over the net or locally to another user to tell them to log in a check for messages. I know if they are on I can get their attention but a lot of times I would like to have my wife log in when I send her a message that I need to have her look at right away. The computer is usually in ear shot so the sound card or speeker can be trigured. I would love to have it run by an email address so I can do it from anywere. Any ideas?? try to use procmail to start some other notification scripts... Martin -- Linux, because I'd like to *get there* today For public PGP-key: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Interesting... Here are some thoughts: Do you manage your own mail server? You could use the user+ convention, by configuring exim appropriately, to send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED], then use the .forward file to pipe the message to a script that sends a sound file to /dev/audio. /home/wife/.forward: # Exim filter if $local_part_suffix is +alert then pipe /home/wife/alert.sh /home/wife/alert.sh: #!/bin/sh # The incoming message is available on standard input, but you can just # ignore it cat alert.au /dev/audio This is kind of off the top of my head, so I welcome other comments. I guess if you are using fetchmail and a POP account, you could just filter on a subject line instead of an address suffix. Marc -- Marc Mongeon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unix Specialist Ban-Koe Systems 9100 W Bloomington Fwy Bloomington, MN 55431-2200 (612)888-0123, x417 | FAX: (612)888-3344 -- It's such a fine line between clever and stupid. -- David St. Hubbins and Nigel Tufnel of Spinal Tap Brian Schramm [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/05 11:48 AM I would like to set it up so I can send an email or some other message from a machine over the net or locally to another user to tell them to log in a check for messages. I know if they are on I can get their attention but a lot of times I would like to have my wife log in when I send her a message that I need to have her look at right away. The computer is usually in ear shot so the sound card or speeker can be trigured. I would love to have it run by an email address so I can do it from anywere. Any ideas?? Brian Schramm [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.linuxexpert.org -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
