Procmail - notification of email, without forwarding

etienneh

Is there a way to send a "notification" of a new email (e.g. just the subject or even just 'new email') to another email address using procmail? Or would that require a custom script?
And the idea here is not to forward the entire email contents.

Basically I'm thinking of it like a Just-In-Time reminder to check the inbox ...

sean

etienneh you should be able to do that with a rule like this:

SHELL=/bin/bash
:0c
*
| echo "" | mail -s "you've got mail" -r user@domain.com me@otherdomain.com

This will send a blank email with subject "you've got mail" to me@otherdomain.com when user@domain.com receives a message.

etienneh

sean Awesome I'll try that out! (sorry for the delay, appreciate your speedy response)