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List:       procmail
Subject:    Re: non-delivering actions
From:       Philip Guenther <guenther () gac ! edu>
Date:       1996-04-26 16:19:04
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fox@gso.SAIC.COM (Warren "Caddy to the Dalai Lama" Fox) writes:
>I'm sure there's a simple answer to this, but I don't see it
>in the man pages.  I want to play an audio sound when mail arrives.
>I'm currently using this recipe, which works, but I'm wondering if
>there is a more efficient way to do this (I'm trying to pipe the
>mail into rsh?).
>
># add sound to these senders,
># but still read from standard mailbox
>:0
>* ^From:.(tjs|bache)
>{
>    :0 c
>    $ORGMAIL
>
>    :0
>    | rsh jarl "/bin/audioplay -v 60 ~/audio/splat.au"
>}


As Guy Geens mentioned, you'll want the 'i' and 'h' flags on the rsh.
Other points to consider:

You probably meant to include a '*' in the condition, and the \< and \>
regexp token may be a good idea as well to delineate the names as words:

	* ^From:.*\<(ths|basche)\>


You may as well pass rsh the -n flag.  This saves a process (rsh has
to fork otherwise to handle both directions).  Beware: some rsh's
require you to place the -n *after* the hostname.

You may want to add "2>/dev/null" to the command line to avoid filling
your procmail log with "audioplay: unable to open /dev/audio:
permission denied" when you aren't logged in.


Why not just make the rsh action be non-delivering, and fall through
for the delivery to your mailbox?

To sum up:

:0 ich
* ^From:.*\<(tjs|basche)\>
|rsh -n jarl "/bin/audioplay -v 60 ~/audio/splat.au" 2>/dev/null


Philip Guenther

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