Re: Playing a sound

Danny <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.procmail
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi,

I am running Debian ... I think I know how to do it now ...

Thank You

Danny

>On Apr 17 12, Andrew Edelstein :
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2012 14:54:42 -0500
> From: Andrew Edelstein <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: Playing a sound
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> On 04/17/2012 02:27 PM, Danny wrote:
>> Is it possible to play a soundfile when procmail encounters mail from a certain
>> e-mail address?
> That depends on your operating system, is your mailbox server also your  
> workstation, etc.
> Generally, assuming your workstation is the same machine where Procmail  
> is running, this is fairly trivial. You just need the "action" of your  
> procmail recipe to include calling your sound player program, presumably  
> telling it what sound file to play. You may have to monkey around with  
> user/permissions a bit so that the user that's running the procmail  
> script has permission to access your sound device. Presumably if  
> procmail is being run as you, and you are logged into X windows, this is  
> a non-issue as you will have permission to access the sound device.
>
> -- 
> Andrew Edelstein - [email protected]
> https://andrew.pure-chaos.com/
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