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Re: Notification on new mails



I'm using bare X + WindowManager instead of Desktop. I use osd-cat for some 
other notifications.

lars

On Sat, 25 Apr 2009, J. Limon wrote:

> On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 01:55:39PM +0800, Chengqi(Lars) Song wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Im using getmail/procmail/mutt/msmtp as my personal mail toolkit. It works 
> > well but lacks of notification on new mails. How do you deal with that?
> > 
> > I want to add a notification to new coming mail in my "inbox-vip" mail box. 
> > How can I modify my procmailrc for that? the corresponding lines are:
> > 
> > :0
> > * ^(Subject|From|To|Cc|Bcc):.*vip
> > $MAILDIR/inbox-vip
> > 
> > 
> > how to add a command when those lines works? echo the "Subject" to osd-cat 
> > to display new mail' title on screen for example.
> > 
> > Thanks
> > lars
> 
> What is your desktop of choice? I know there are several gnome apps to 
> monitor mbox and maildir mailboxes..
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> solved, worrying will do no good."