Re: Playing a sound

Danny squawked out on Tuesday 17-Apr-2012@13:27:32
> Hi guys,
> 
> Is it possible to play a soundfile when procmail encounters mail from a certain
> e-mail address?

Yep, it's quite easy. On the tried period of time that I was running postfix/procmail on my OIS System I had a recipe that looked something like this on my personal account. I set UNAME by indexing the CLEANFROM against a whitelist local file.

[email protected] Fred Smith

# This is a non-delivery recipe
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* CLEANFROM ?? $UNAME
{ DUMMY=`/usr/bin/say "New mail has arrived from $UNAME" -v Alex -r 255` }

Of course, the command that you use will vary by OS, but it really is that simple. The hard part was building UNAME, which I did with a local file that I edited manually when I wanted notifications from a person.

But the experiment of running postfix and procmail on OS X was short-lived, and my servers are miles away, so sound playing would be rather silly at this point.

You can do pretty much anything you want in a recipe, and executing it from a fake variable assignment avoids a lot of issues.

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