David, > % Instead, I have my procmail recipe write a line to a log file when > % interesting email arrives (i.e. only when one of a few recipes fires). > % And I have a small window which tails that logfile. If I were in text mode I > % could just tail that log in the background. > > I like this, and I've been looking for something this simple. Can you > post or send your config for me to blatantly copy? :-)
I don't actually use this anymore (since someone mentioned gkrellm-mailcheck), but this is the sort of thing I tried: # Here's how we send the subject to the logfile :0 * Subject: test { :0 c: logger.lock | formail -X "Subject:" | logger -p kern.warn :0: /var/mail/cswingle } kern.warn probably isn't exactly the right facility and level to use, but I wanted to make sure it showed up on my syslog server. Maybe mail.info, or something. Test first, I'm far from a procmail wizard. Chris -- Christopher S. Swingley phone: 907-474-2689 Computer Systems Manager email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] IARC -- Frontier Program GPG and PGP keys at my web page: University of Alaska Fairbanks www.frontier.iarc.uaf.edu/~cswingle