Sorry for not being clear about the echo part of this!
-Eric.
Eric D. Berg writes:
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" &
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Eric Berg, <eberg(_at_)sybase(_dot_)com>
Web Developer, Sybase, Inc.
http://www-es1.sybase.com