Playing sound when new mail arrives.

[Janina Sajka]

Maybe Chuck answered, but in case not ...

I've included my .procmailrc file and my rc.playsound file to give you 
examples of how to put this together.

On Tue, 29 Jan 2002, Dan Murphy wrote:

> Hi all.
> Back around Christmas, I saw something Chuck Hollenbeck posted here that
> would allow you to hear a sound when mail arrived.
> I followed the instructions given, but, Chuck, if you're out there, could
> you perhaps mail me off list and provide some more details about how to
> use procmail for this?
> I run fetchmail in daemon mode all the time, but my experience using
> procmail is non existent.  thanks.
> thanks.
> 
> 
> 
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				Janina Sajka, Director
				Technology Research and Development
				Governmental Relations Group
				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

Email: janina at afb.net		Phone: (202) 408-8175

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     #Set on when debugging
     VERBOSE=off
     #Directory for storing procmail log and rc files
     PMDIR=$HOME/mail/.procmail
     LOGFILE=$PMDIR/log
#     INCLUDERC=$PMDIR/rc.test
     INCLUDERC=$PMDIR/rc.lists
     INCLUDERC=$PMDIR/rc.kills
     INCLUDERC=$PMDIR/rc.playsound
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:0 c
* ^To:.*janina
* !^To:.*,
|play /usr/local/sounds/notify.wav
:0 c
* ^From:.*paula.tucker
* !^From:.*,
|play /usr/local/sounds/tweet2.wav
:0 c
* ^From:.*Paula E. Tucker
* !^From:.*,
|play /usr/local/sounds/tweet2.wav
:0 c
* ^From:.*tappaulat at aol.com
* !^From:.*,
|play /usr/local/sounds/tweet2.wav
:0 c
* ^From:.*kerscher
* !^From:.*,
|play /usr/local/sounds/card_shuffle.wav
:0 c
* ^From:.*pws
* !^From:.*,
|play /usr/local/sounds/critstop.wav