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Re: get an alert when a mail arrives from certain addresses



> Just one of the reasons I use fetchmail and procmail as background 
> processes. Removing the fetching duties from kmail makes it a lot 
> smoother and friendlier. By watching their activities of depositing 
> incoming mail in /var/mail/*, kmail knows within microseconds as 
> inotifywait sends kmail a message when /var/mail/* is closed. Editing 
> this message you are reading has so far used one mouse click.
> Computers are supposed to save you work, not make it. Now I'll send
> this with a ctrl+return, and the + key takes me to the next unread
> massage.
> 
> Cheers, Gene Heskett
So I guess I will have to investigate in fetchmail and/or procmail...

Thanks for yor proposal!


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