Re: biff replacement
-- Bob Proulx [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote (on Thursday, 31 October 2002, 09:14 PM -0700): Justin Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002-10-30 13:34:34 -0500]: Does anyone know of a good replacement? I would like to be notified of new mail but biff does this in a very inelegant way. For example, if I am in vi it will spam my screen. Also, when I get new mail biff only lets me know what folder it is in. I would like to be able to find out who sent it, when, and what the title is. I personally use and like gbuffy. It sounds like just what you want. Except that the OP was talking (I'm assuming) about a biff replacement for the CLI -- gbuffy is GTK. -- Matthew Weier O'Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: biff replacement
on Fri, 01 Nov 2002 01:15:45AM +, Karl E. Jorgensen insinuated: On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 01:34:34PM -0500, Justin Miller wrote: Also, when I get new mail biff only lets me know what folder it is in. I would like to be able to find out who sent it, when, and what the title is. xbuffy? along these lines, does anyone know of a console-like xbuffy (would that be just buffy?)? i'd like the same functionality, as much as is possible, when i can't ssh -X to my home machine. /nori -- .~. nori sccs.swarthmore.edu /V\ http://www.sccs.swarthmore.edu/~nori/jnl/ // \\ maenad.net /( )\ www.maenad.net ^`~'^ msg10434/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: biff replacement
On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 01:34:34PM -0500, Justin Miller wrote: Does anyone know of a good replacement? I would like to be notified of new mail but biff does this in a very inelegant way. For example, if I am in vi it will spam my screen. What about a sound? A boing-type think: End of ~/.procmailrc: :0 cW | esdplay your-favourite.wav you probably want to make sure that the wav is reasonably short... Also, when I get new mail biff only lets me know what folder it is in. I would like to be able to find out who sent it, when, and what the title is. xbuffy? or ... More ~/.procmailrc stuff? A shell script using xmessage? Go really overboard with festival? -- Karl E. Jørgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://karl.jorgensen.com ... An rfc2324 advocate http://www.rfc.net/rfc2324.html msg10306/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: biff replacement
-- Karl E. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote (on Friday, 01 November 2002, 01:15 AM +): On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 01:34:34PM -0500, Justin Miller wrote: Does anyone know of a good replacement? I would like to be notified of new mail but biff does this in a very inelegant way. For example, if I am in vi it will spam my screen. What about a sound? A boing-type think: End of ~/.procmailrc: :0 cW | esdplay your-favourite.wav you probably want to make sure that the wav is reasonably short... Also, when I get new mail biff only lets me know what folder it is in. I would like to be able to find out who sent it, when, and what the title is. xbuffy? or ... More ~/.procmailrc stuff? A shell script using xmessage? Go really overboard with festival? I'm not the original poster, but I, too am curious about this. I started using screen a couple months ago, and, as a result, am much more terminal oriented. To further complicate matters, mail comes in to my server, and I retrieve it via IMAP. I have gkrellm on my desktop, and I can see when I receive mail, but I often find I don't even go into X... which means I have to periodically switch to my mutt screen to see if I have any messages and where. I've looked into netbiffd, but no matter how I configure it, it doesn't notify me ever. Anybody out there using a CLI biff that can poll IMAP? -- Matthew Weier O'Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: biff replacement
Justin Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002-10-30 13:34:34 -0500]: Does anyone know of a good replacement? I would like to be notified of new mail but biff does this in a very inelegant way. For example, if I am in vi it will spam my screen. Also, when I get new mail biff only lets me know what folder it is in. I would like to be able to find out who sent it, when, and what the title is. I personally use and like gbuffy. It sounds like just what you want. apt-cache show gbuffy GBuffy will poll multiple mailboxes for new mail. It will list the number of new messages in each mailbox you configure. It will also highlight the mailboxes which have new mail. Pressing the left mouse button on a mailbox with new mail will display the Sender and Subject of each new message. Additionally, GBuffy will display the X-Face header for messages which have them. Pressing the middle mouse button on a mailbox will launch the configured command, generally a command to read the mailbox with your favorite mailreader. Pressing the right mouse button will bring up the configure menu. GBuffy is currently capable of watching MBOX, MMDF, Maildir and MH Folders. This version also supports IMAP4rev1 and NNTP with XOVER mailboxes. Support for an external program for notification is planned. Bob msg10322/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: biff replacement
On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 01:34:34PM -0500, Justin Miller wrote: Does anyone know of a good replacement? I would like to be notified of new mail but biff does this in a very inelegant way. For example, if I am in vi it will spam my screen. Also, when I get new mail biff only lets me know what folder it is in. I would like to be able to find out who sent it, when, and what the title is. Check the man pages of bash, more specifically for the MAILPATH variable and their options. For example, this is in my ~/.bashrc file: export MAILPATH=~/Mail/inbox The shell shows a one line message, only when a program exits and gives controll back to the shell. I don't think it's possible to show more information about emails though. I would think about a nifty perl script, but from a first glance through the manpage, it seems it's not possible to trigger an external program when new mail is detected, so you'll have to look for other programs if you want such behavior. -- Mathias De Belder -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
