Re: automatic mail checking & notify

[Mark Boyns <boyns@sdsu.edu>]

edmonds@cs.ubc.ca (Brian Edmonds) writes:

> David Benjamin <dbjag@aolnorth.com> writes:
> > More desirable would be to play a sound only when certain groups get
> > mail, such as personal mail.

You can invoke a sound player from your .forward or .qmail file.
Programs like mailsound can play different sounds depending on message
contents.

> You might want to check out the faces (picons) project, and in
> particular the xfaces program.  It does a far better job of showing me
> what mail I have waiting than I expect Gnus ever could (given the
> fundemental limitations of emacs).
> 
> I don't recall where to get it, but I found it with a simple web search,
> so I'm sure you can do the same.

xfaces and picons are available here:

    ftp://cs.indiana.edu/pub/faces/