From: Masood Ahmed <coolmasood@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How to get notified of new mail in custom mail folders
Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2006 00:25:04 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060303185504.GA25913@mainframe> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060303180256.GA883@beavis>
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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2006-03-03 9:06 [gentoo-user] How to get notified of new mail in custom mail folders Masood Ahmed
2006-03-03 17:48 ` Joe Martel
2006-03-03 18:02 ` Wes Gray
2006-03-03 18:55 ` Masood Ahmed [this message]
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