[gentoo-user] How to get notified of new mail in custom mail folders
Hi, I have a email system comprising of fetchmail, to fetchmail mail from pop servers. Procmail, to filter the incoming mail and mutt to read it. Now what i want to know is, is there some way so that i can make bash display You've a new mail everytime i log in? I dont store my email in default place (/var/mail) but in my home directory. Kindly please help. Thanks in advance, Masood Ahmed -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] How to get notified of new mail in custom mail folders
Hi Masood, Are you filtering your mail into maildirs or mbox files? e.g. a Maildir would look something like /home/masood/.maildir/[some more directories here] whereas an mbox would be one file like /home/masood/.mail Joe Masood Ahmed wrote: Hi, I have a email system comprising of fetchmail, to fetchmail mail from pop servers. Procmail, to filter the incoming mail and mutt to read it. Now what i want to know is, is there some way so that i can make bash display You've a new mail everytime i log in? I dont store my email in default place (/var/mail) but in my home directory. Kindly please help. Thanks in advance, Masood Ahmed -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] How to get notified of new mail in custom mail folders
On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 02:36:37PM +0530, Masood Ahmed wrote: Hi, I have a email system comprising of fetchmail, to fetchmail mail from pop servers. Procmail, to filter the incoming mail and mutt to read it. Now what i want to know is, is there some way so that i can make bash display You've a new mail everytime i log in? I dont store my email in default place (/var/mail) but in my home directory. Kindly please help. You want to set MAILPATH in .bashrc. man bash and search for MAILPATH. -Wes -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] How to get notified of new mail in custom mail folders
On 10:02 Fri 03 Mar, Wes Gray wrote: On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 02:36:37PM +0530, Masood Ahmed wrote: Hi, I have a email system comprising of fetchmail, to fetchmail mail from pop servers. Procmail, to filter the incoming mail and mutt to read it. Now what i want to know is, is there some way so that i can make bash display You've a new mail everytime i log in? I dont store my email in default place (/var/mail) but in my home directory. Kindly please help. You want to set MAILPATH in .bashrc. man bash and search for MAILPATH. I set the MAILPATH in .bashrc as MAILPATH='~/Mail/Gentoo-User:~/Mail/Gentoo-Announce' but still when i login no message notifying me of new mail is displayed. The list is long so, some mbox's have not yet been created.. Does it has anything to do? -Wes -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
