>>>>> "Cheryl" == Cheryl Homiak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Cheryl> Hi all! I am using woody; have exim and fetchmail and
Cheryl> Pine for mail, though considering a change to mutt. Can't
Cheryl> use Xwindows or graphical systems because I am blind. I
Cheryl> want to know whether there is a way I can set up my
Cheryl> machine so that it will beep when I get new mail into
Cheryl> /var/mail, but without displaying the actual mail messages
Cheryl> at the time.
If you want to use your shell, that's quiet easy.
In bash and (in zsh it should work similarly) you may append (with a
question mark) the mail notification message to the $MAILPATH
setting. But this message could be perfectly a sound playing command
or a text reading one.
If festival is on your system you could put the following in ~./bash_profile
export MAILPATH='~/var/spool/mail/YOU?`festival --tts ~/festmail.txt`'
So festival will read the text of ~/festmail.txt to you instead of
displaying "You have new mail".
HTH,
MH
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