Thanks Y'all!
Many folks recommended xbiff++, apparently available on ftp.x.org
One Fella said he saw something on comp.sources called audiobiff
Matthias Kurz offered:
>#!/bin/sh
>[ -r $HOME/.lastMail ] || touch $HOME/.lastMail
>while true; do
> if find /var/spool/mail/`logname` \
> -newer $HOME/.lastMail -print >/dev/null 2>&1
> then touch $HOME/.lastMail
> audioplay [<opts>] <yourSoundFile>
> fi
> sleep 30
>done
>
>Should run in background.
>Not tested...
While Tim Evans politely informed me that:
>Your posting to sun-managers is an inappropriate one....post your question
>to one of the Sun-related netnews groups, such a comp.sys.sun.admin.
(Sorry) |-(
A common approach that won't work for me:
>Use the .forward file mechanism to play an audio file when mail arrives.
>
>e.g
>
>.forward file in user's home directory world readable.
>
>\userid,"| cat > /dev/null ; cat noise.au > /dev/audio"
>
>
>This will work as long as mail is delivered direct to the users workstation
>and NOT to an NFS mailserver in which case the mailserver would play the file.
Once again, Thanx 2 all!
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