Play sound on new mail

Play sound on new mail

[Joe Galaxy]

Hi all, there is possible to make gnus play a sound when new mail
arrives?


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Re: Play sound on new mail

[Richard Riley]

Joe Galaxy <see@my.sig.invalid> writes:

> Hi all, there is possible to make gnus play a sound when new mail
> arrives?

That should be the job of something like gnubiff - you want an app which
polls your mailbox and tells you there is mail pending collection.

http://gnubiff.sourceforge.net/

Since you probably manually tell gnus to fetch mail it doesnt seem
appropriate that it beeps when it gets mail since you will see it anyway
in the Group buffer.

Re: Play sound on new mail

[Thierry Volpiatto]

Richard Riley <rileyrgdev@gmail.com> writes:

> Joe Galaxy <see@my.sig.invalid> writes:
>
>> Hi all, there is possible to make gnus play a sound when new mail
>> arrives?
>
> That should be the job of something like gnubiff - you want an app which
> polls your mailbox and tells you there is mail pending collection.
>
> http://gnubiff.sourceforge.net/
>
> Since you probably manually tell gnus to fetch mail it doesnt seem
> appropriate that it beeps when it gets mail since you will see it anyway
> in the Group buffer.


You can also use a simple script you run all the x minutes in a crontab
that look at the mails incoming in your mail dir (source not the gnus
one).

Something checking the size of each mailbox and telling you if it is
empty or not work fine:

Example:

,----
| MB14="/you/incoming/help-gnu-emacs"
| CHECK14=$(du $MB14 | awk '{print $1}')
| if [[ $CHECK14 > 0 ]] ; then echo -n " You have New Mails " ; fi
`----

You can replace the echo by what you want, sound etc..
I use this echo message in my stumpwm mode-line (no crontab, the
mode-line timer).

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Re: Play sound on new mail

[Joe Galaxy]

On mer 10 feb 2010 18:26, Richard Riley <rileyrgdev@gmail.com> wrote:

> http://gnubiff.sourceforge.net/
I'll give a try.

> Since you probably manually tell gnus to fetch mail it doesnt seem
> appropriate that it beeps when it gets mail since you will see it anyway
> in the Group buffer.
I've a daemon:
(gnus-demon-add-handler 'gnus-group-get-new-news 5 nil)


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Re: Play sound on new mail

[John Sullivan]

Joe Galaxy <see@my.sig.invalid> writes:

> On mer 10 feb 2010 18:26, Richard Riley <rileyrgdev@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> http://gnubiff.sourceforge.net/
> I'll give a try.
>
>> Since you probably manually tell gnus to fetch mail it doesnt seem
>> appropriate that it beeps when it gets mail since you will see it anyway
>> in the Group buffer.
> I've a daemon:
> (gnus-demon-add-handler 'gnus-group-get-new-news 5 nil)

It looks like that runs gnus-after-getting-new-news-hook, so you could
do something with that. I didn't see (looking only quickly) whether
there is a value passed to it based on new news or not though.

Also remember that Emacs has its own "biff" functionality with
display-time-mode, so you might be able to hook into that.

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Re: Play sound on new mail

[Joe Galaxy]

On mer 10 feb 2010 21:01, John Sullivan <john@wjsullivan.net> wrote:

> It looks like that runs gnus-after-getting-new-news-hook, so you could
> do something with that. I didn't see (looking only quickly) whether
> there is a value passed to it based on new news or not though.
Done adding 
(shell-command "play -q /path/to/sound.wav")
to gnus-notify+.el
;^)

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