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 1FFEdO-00036v-3v for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 03 Mar 2006 18:04:10 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k23I0wou020843; Fri, 3 Mar 2006 18:00:58 GMT Received: from minerva.hmdnsgroup.com (minerva.hmdnsgroup.com [63.247.131.20] (may be forged)) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k23HmE5t008896 for ; Fri, 3 Mar 2006 17:48:14 GMT Received: from 200-11.dsl2.guernsey.net ([213.133.200.11]:36271 helo=[192.168.0.110]) by minerva.hmdnsgroup.com with esmtpa (Exim 4.52) id 1FFENu-0003nL-4N for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 03 Mar 2006 12:48:10 -0500 Message-ID: <44088157.3020202@guernsey.net> Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2006 17:48:07 +0000 From: Joe Martel User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051018) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How to get notified of new mail in custom mail folders References: <20060303090637.GA4274@mainframe> In-Reply-To: <20060303090637.GA4274@mainframe> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-HMDNSGroup-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-HMDNSGroup-MailScanner-SpamCheck: X-HMDNSGroup-MailScanner-From: smokinjoe@guernsey.net X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - minerva.hmdnsgroup.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - lists.gentoo.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [0 0] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - guernsey.net X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: X-Archives-Salt: a17c4ab2-ad3f-492a-a78f-b7fb84cb204e X-Archives-Hash: fb065b3fe32013f984a8f332ee207f25 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 > > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list