Re: Playing a sound

At 12:27 2012-04-17, Danny wrote:
>Hi guys,
>
>Is it possible to play a soundfile when procmail encounters mail 
>from a certain
>e-mail address?

:0
* ^From:.*\<some_address@domain\.tld
{
         # c - make a copy for purpose of invoking a sound processor
         # i - ignore write errors (say, because your invoked program doesn't
         # give a hoot about stuff on stdin)
         :0ci
         | path/to/some/sound/player soundfile

         # original processing continues here (say you want to file it special
}


The \< isn't literal open bracket, it's regexp for "character before 
or after a word, and of course, the above could be simplified to more 
specifically what you asked for:

# this doesn't copy the message, so it effectively gets tosssed when invoking
# the sound player.
:0i
* ^From:.*\<some_address@domain\.tld
| path/to/some/sound/player soundfile


YOU need to find a suitable audio player.  It's an exercise for you 
to resolve hardware permissions (can your user account play sound, or 
only root?)

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