Re: Playing a sound
Danny <[email protected]>
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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 > User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:11.0) Gecko/20120329 > Thunderbird/11.0.1 > X-BeenThere: [email protected] > > 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/ > > ____________________________________________________________ > procmail mailing list Procmail homepage: http://www.procmail.org/ > [email protected] > http://mailman.rwth-aachen.de/mailman/listinfo/procmail