From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 8 14:20:19 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 800A337B69F for ; Mon, 8 Jan 2001 14:19:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.mediaone.net [24.147.184.128]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 279F46E2BE3 for ; Mon, 8 Jan 2001 13:54:07 -0800 (PST) Received: (from lowell@localhost) by be-well.ilk.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f08Ls4t09344; Mon, 8 Jan 2001 16:54:04 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from lowell) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Email alert References: <000501c079ae$1d81f360$02000003@oemcomputer> <200101081455.00000065@captain> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 08 Jan 2001 16:54:03 -0500 In-Reply-To: Nimble@meander.addr.com's message of "8 Jan 2001 22:32:35 +0100" Message-ID: <447l45soas.fsf@lowellg.ne.mediaone.net> Lines: 18 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 20.7 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Nimble@meander.addr.com (Nimble) writes: > On Mon, 8 Jan 2001 20:03:43 -0000, charlescampbell wrote: > > >I wish to have notification of the arrival of a new Email by > >a pop-up box on the monitor. Is this possible? > > Most Probably; but just how it happens will depend upon where the new > mail is (local or remote) and what softare is in current or most recent > control over the subject new mail. Yes, but both KDE and Gnome have "biff" programs that (if I recall correctly) handle multiple mailboxes and multiple protocols. The default X client xbiff(1) is more limited, but available on *every* X installation. There are other clients for this sort of thing, as well. There are currently 8 hits on "ls -d /usr/ports/mail/*biff*". To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message