BTW:  I remember messing about with such things long ago.  One
problem I ran into was making sure that no attempt was made to

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Message from Chris Garrigues
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From exmh-users-admin@redhat.com  Wed Oct  9 10:48:44 2002

> > >
> > >   Dag> but when procmail runs it it doesn't, presumably as it
> > >   Dag> doesn't have the authorization to communicate with the
> > >   Dag> laptop, beeing another user?
> > >
> > > I don't know anything about the KDE sound server but I'd guess
> > > your problem is the "environment" in which procmail runs.  You
> > > don't say what procmail is running from.  In my case, for
> > > example, procmail is run from fetchmail which is run by a cron
> > > job.
> >
> > Sorry about that,
> > procmail is run by the qmail delivery agent to presort all mail
> > I get.
> > But anyway, I found an error message in procmail.log, which solved
> > the problem.
> > The following line in my delivery script seems to work fine now:
> >
> > DISPLAY=<laptop>:0.0 artsplay <soundfile>
>
> BTW, if you use exmhwrapper (found in the misc directory), you can generalize
> this to
>
> DISPLAY=`cat $HOME/.exmh/.display` artsplay <soundfile>
Yes, but that probably means that you have to have exmh
running on the laptop to get the notification?
With exmh getting upset by two instances running at the
same time, this creates the problem that I cannot  run to the
closest compter to check out the new mail.
But thanks for the hint, I might use that for some other
hack ;-)
BRGDS
Dag
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