Re: [OT] buffy like tool for the console

["Jurriaan Kalkman" <jurriaan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Hi all,
>
> I wonder if there is a tool like buffy for the command line. That tool
> checks my mboxes periodically and displays, how many new messages have
> arrived. It can also start mutt and jump to the mbox which contains new
> messages.
> I found the newmail command, but that just prints out a message when
> new mail arrives. It can not start mutt with the appropriate mbox.
>
> regards,
>
in Bash (and probably other shells as well) you can execute commands when
displaying a prompt (man bash, then /PROMPT_COMMAND).

You can script what you like there. Beware of opening a mutt on every
console you go to, however :-)

HTH,
Jurriaan