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Re: fetchmail configuration



Dear

On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 08:22:47PM -0400, S.Salman Ahmed wrote:
> 
> Normally, fetchmail displays the following output when I invoke it from
> the command line in a terminal window:
> 
> 5 messages for user at mail.isp.com (11495 octets).
> reading message 1 of 5 (3031 octets) .. flushed
> 
> Is it possible to include in the above output, the sender of the message
> ? In other words, I'd like to be able tell fetchmail to also display the
> "From:" field of each message so I can quickly decide whether or not to
> open my email client if there isn't an important message or a message
> from an important sender.

hmm, just run fetchmail -v -d0 and see. But that is not the way to check 
that. You should rather check program procmail and configure it to 
tell you or bell you or play a song, when you get message from someone
you expect.


Sincerely,
Marko Cehaja








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