From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1FFEk3-0007wh-DP for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 03 Mar 2006 18:11:03 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k23IA2q9004701; Fri, 3 Mar 2006 18:10:02 GMT Received: from alumni.cse.ucsc.edu (alumni.cse.ucsc.edu [128.114.63.28]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k23I2jtd027792 for ; Fri, 3 Mar 2006 18:02:46 GMT Received: from alumni.cse.ucsc.edu (localhost.cse.ucsc.edu [127.0.0.1]) by alumni.cse.ucsc.edu (8.13.1/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k23I2Zcm019294 for ; Fri, 3 Mar 2006 10:02:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from smiths@alumni.cse.ucsc.edu) Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by alumni.cse.ucsc.edu (8.13.1/8.12.10/Submit) id k23I2ZLg019293 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 3 Mar 2006 10:02:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from smiths) Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2006 10:02:56 -0800 From: Wes Gray To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How to get notified of new mail in custom mail folders Message-ID: <20060303180256.GA883@beavis> References: <20060303090637.GA4274@mainframe> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060303090637.GA4274@mainframe> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.8 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=failed version=3.0.1 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.1 (2004-10-22) on alumni.cse.ucsc.edu X-Archives-Salt: f37a0556-5523-4fcd-8847-cf6c0d02fa30 X-Archives-Hash: 78c5aefaaf92e042249ef697ff857153 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 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list