On Sun, Apr 08, 2001 at 05:06:19PM -0400, Rich Lafferty wrote:
> To the original poster: If you're using procmail to sort your incoming
> mail, you may as well have procmail launch the command to play the
> sound as well.
If you just want sounds, that's probably the way to go. The only
possible downside (and this is quite subjective) is that you'd get a
sound for each individual message, as opposed to using a biff-like
program that polls (in the manner that Rich described) at some time
interval and then just beeps if the mailbox has been updated. E.g.,
if your biff-like program checks every minute and you receive ten
mails in one minute, procmail will run the sound command each time it
processes an individual message (for a total of ten beeps), whereas a
biff-like program will just announce things once, at the end of the
minute. Of course, you might prefer the former behavior. Also, there
may be some kludge to make procmail act like the latter.
If you also want some visual indication, there's a program called
Xbuffy that checks multiple mailboxes and can be given a command to
run for sounds. Here's a URL:
http://www.fiction.net/blong/programs/#xbuffy
I think it will meet your needs quite well, as long as you don't mind
the visual indicator as well.
--
Luke
