Dear On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 08:22:47PM -0400, S.Salman Ahmed wrote: > > Normally, fetchmail displays the following output when I invoke it from > the command line in a terminal window: > > 5 messages for user at mail.isp.com (11495 octets). > reading message 1 of 5 (3031 octets) .. flushed > > Is it possible to include in the above output, the sender of the message > ? In other words, I'd like to be able tell fetchmail to also display the > "From:" field of each message so I can quickly decide whether or not to > open my email client if there isn't an important message or a message > from an important sender.
hmm, just run fetchmail -v -d0 and see. But that is not the way to check that. You should rather check program procmail and configure it to tell you or bell you or play a song, when you get message from someone you expect. Sincerely, Marko Cehaja