Re: [Sheflug] Kmail

["Chris J" <cej [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

And Lo! The Great Prophet Richard Ibbotson uttered these words of wisdom:
> 
> This is trivial but thought I'd ask anyway.
> 
> I'm trying to work out how to get Kmail to make a .wav to work every=20
> time new mail arrives.  Anyone know what to do with this ?  At the=20
> moment the network section of Kmail shows that the system beep is=20
> selected every time new mail arrives.   I'd like to have something=20
> that's more sophisticated.
> 
> Also, is it possible to do this with Pine as well ?
> 

Well... I use qmail these days, so I know I could do summat like this using 
something in a $HOME/.qmail file like:

	| wavplay <whatever>

or some wrapper round wavplay. You may be able to do something with postfix/
exim/sendmail's .forward processing. This way it then becomes completely 
MUA independent (the MTA will trigger the alert), but may require some
reading/investigation to find out what limitations there may be.

You could even knock up a quick C / shell / perl program to check your 
mailspool and have crontab run it every few mins etc etc. Again, this would 
be MUA independent. There may be a version of biff/comsat that could do 
this (I've not done any searching).

MUA independence has the advantage of you only ever needing to set things 
up in one place, which always helps configuration :)

But some ideas for further investigation / thought anyway.

Chris...

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