I've done something similar to this using procmail and just sending Ctrl-G to an open terminal. Wrote a script that checked for tty's open by the user and picked one. This caused alot of beeping though if there was lots of mail.
Also had something else setup at one time that used mailstat to check the procmail .maillog file, save the output in /tmp, periodically diff the output of the current and previous checks, and beep/play sound if there's new mail. Don't know if this helps you at all though - ie if you're not using procmail... ty > -----Original Message----- > From: Jeffrey Borg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, 4 July 2002 10:34 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [SLUG] New Mail notification > > > Hi, > > This is something I have looked into before without much success. > > I am after a "xbiff" but one which just makes the pc speaker > beep when new > mail is waiting for the user. I.e If there are any unread > messages just > beep the speaker. This would just run from cron every minute > to notify the > user of new email. > > > Jeff > > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ > More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
