procmail

Deedra Waters deedra at dmwaters.us
Thu Sep 25 15:56:42 EDT 2003


hrmm, I've got it partially working, with one slight problem.  I need a
way to make it go to both my inbox as well as play the sound the output
from the procmail log shows that it's skipping the sound in favor of the
folder when I add in the folder factor.

On Thu, 25 Sep 2003, Keith Watson
wrote:

> Yep, here's mine for the list.
>
> :0 c
> * ^TOspeakup
> |play /usr/local/sounds/mail/jetmail.wav
>
> Have fun.
>
>
> On 06:38 AM, Chuck Hallenbeck wrote:
> > Hi Deedra,
> >
> > Here is the simplest case:
> >
> > Create a file in your home directory called ".procmailrc" and put
> > two lines in it as follows:
> >
> > :0 c
> > | play /usr/local/etc/prayer.wav
> >
> > Modify the second line to point to the particular sound file you
> > want to play, and of course if the "play" command is wrong,
> > change that too -- maybe to "aplay" for the alsa wav file player.
> >
> > You can also make the system play certain sounds when certain
> > messages are detected, but the above will play a sound whenever
> > any mail is received.
> >
> > HTH
> >
> > Chuck
> >
> >
> > On Thu, 25 Sep 2003, Deedra Waters wrote:
> >
> > > a while back someone mentioned how to get procmail to play a sound file
> > > for certain things. I'm in desperate need to get it to do this right now,
> > > if someone could let me know how to do this again, I'd very very seriously
> > > appreciate it, thanks.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
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