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From: fuchs@czar.Princeton.EDU (Ira Fuchs)
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Subject: Re: Printer power on-off --- Announce mail arrival.
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Date: 25 Jan 91 17:07:05 GMT
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The easiest way I know of to have audio announcement of mail arrival is to
create a .forward file (or append to an existing one) the following:
"|sndplay soundofyourchoice.snd". You can actually take this a step
further and do something like this:
"|gawk '/anystringyoulike/ {system(\"sndplay somesound.snd\")}`"
This will play somesound.snd only when the string "anystringofyourchoice"
is in the mail. Obviously you can have as complex a gawk script as you like
(e.g., play the pre-recorded name of the sender or a tune which you
associate with the sender, etc.). The possibilities are endless (and
possibly noisy).