Re: New Mail

On Wed, 10 Jul 1996, Eric D. Berg wrote:

> The Raven writes:
>  > I often leave myself logged in at my shell prompt.
>  > 
>  > How can I have procmail pop up a little message like:
>  > 
>  > You have new mail from lolson(_at_)acc(_dot_)jc(_dot_)edu about New Mail.
>  > 
>
> I use this to inform me of mail from my wife.  xmessage pops up a window on
> your xdisplay, but you can easily just change this to `echo`.
>
>
> FROM=`formail -rtzxTo:`
> DISPLAY="bluedog:0.0"
> SUBJ=`formail -rtzxSubject:`
> :0 c
> * FROM ?? mywife(_at_)herjob(_dot_)com
> |  xmessage  "$FROM: $SUBJ"  &
>
> -Eric.
I inserted this recipe into my .procmailrc fil, but nothing happens.

FROM=`formail -rtzxTo:`
SUBJ=`formail -rtzxSubject:`
:0 c
| echo "You have new mail from $FROM about $SUBJ" &
 
I used mail lolson < file to test it, the mail got there, but th mssage 
wasn't displayed.

Any ideas what is wrong?
 
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