[gentoo-user] How to get notified of new mail in custom mail folders

[gentoo-user] How to get notified of new mail in custom mail folders

[Masood Ahmed]

Hi,
	I have a email system comprising of fetchmail, to fetchmail mail
from pop servers. Procmail, to filter the incoming mail and mutt to read
it.
	Now what i want to know is, is there some way so that i can make
bash display "You've a new mail" everytime i log in? I dont store my email
in default place (/var/mail) but in my home directory. Kindly please help.

Thanks in advance,
Masood Ahmed
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Re: [gentoo-user] How to get notified of new mail in custom mail folders

[Joe Martel]

Hi Masood,

Are you filtering your mail into maildirs or mbox files?

e.g. a Maildir would look something like /home/masood/.maildir/[some 
more directories here]
whereas an mbox would be one file like /home/masood/.mail

Joe

Masood Ahmed wrote:

>Hi,
>	I have a email system comprising of fetchmail, to fetchmail mail
>from pop servers. Procmail, to filter the incoming mail and mutt to read
>it.
>	Now what i want to know is, is there some way so that i can make
>bash display "You've a new mail" everytime i log in? I dont store my email
>in default place (/var/mail) but in my home directory. Kindly please help.
>
>Thanks in advance,
>Masood Ahmed
>  
>
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Re: [gentoo-user] How to get notified of new mail in custom mail folders

[Wes Gray]

On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 02:36:37PM +0530, Masood Ahmed wrote:
> Hi,
> 	I have a email system comprising of fetchmail, to fetchmail mail
> from pop servers. Procmail, to filter the incoming mail and mutt to read
> it.
> 	Now what i want to know is, is there some way so that i can make
> bash display "You've a new mail" everytime i log in? I dont store my email
> in default place (/var/mail) but in my home directory. Kindly please help.

You want to set MAILPATH in .bashrc. man bash and search for MAILPATH.

-Wes
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Re: [gentoo-user] How to get notified of new mail in custom mail folders

[Masood Ahmed]

On 10:02 Fri 03 Mar    , Wes Gray wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 02:36:37PM +0530, Masood Ahmed wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 	I have a email system comprising of fetchmail, to fetchmail mail
> > from pop servers. Procmail, to filter the incoming mail and mutt to read
> > it.
> > 	Now what i want to know is, is there some way so that i can make
> > bash display "You've a new mail" everytime i log in? I dont store my email
> > in default place (/var/mail) but in my home directory. Kindly please help.
> 
> You want to set MAILPATH in .bashrc. man bash and search for MAILPATH.

I set the MAILPATH in .bashrc as MAILPATH='~/Mail/Gentoo-User:~/Mail/Gentoo-Announce'
but still when i login no message notifying me of new mail is displayed. The list is long
so, some mbox's have not yet been created.. Does it has anything to do?

> 
> -Wes
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