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hello all. couple questions for you. My situation: I am on several
mailing lists and wish to direct the mail to separate folders. The main
problem is that I don't get alerted when new mail arrives since it is not
put in my inbox. How do I get procmail to do this? I've tried touching
my inbox file to fool my system into thinking I got new mail in my inbox,
but it didn't work.
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If you have a unix console at your desk - and it has a speaker system,
(/dev/audio) then you can play a sound from the unix box when certain
mail arrives.
I have procmail setup using Greg Sutter's Junkmail filter. When I get
certified spam, I play toiletflush.au - When I get personal mail, I
play youvegotmail.au
I know this is not exactly what you want - but it helps if you are
sitting by the computer when mail comes in.
Here is a snippet from my .procmailrc. This is the last line in the file.
...
# Catches everything else.
:0
{
:0 c
!axxxxxxx(_at_)rlxmaxl(_dot_)dxxg(_dot_)xxxi(_dot_)com
:0
| cat > /dev/null; rsh svsw1 /home/toddl/bin/playit -v40
/home/toddl/bin/youvegotmail.au
}
(note svsw1 is the machine near me - and the mail servers name is located in
my .rhosts file)
toddl