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[Locked] How to use Mail applet to check local system mail
1337ingDisorder English 1 1337ingDisorder [Read]
09 May 2015 à 01:24

1337ingDisorder, Saturday 09 May 2015 à 01:20


Subscription date : 14 March 2014
Messages : 14
I'd like to use the Mail applet to notify me when new local system mail shows up in my /var/mail/ file.

As a practical example, if a cron job fails or has error output the system sends my user a mail message with that output. In this example we'll use a user named bob -- the mail message is added to the file at /var/mail/bob

I'm not sure if that's MailDir or MBox or what, but it seems to be the standard linux mail format and I can't seem to figure out how to get cairo to check it.

1337ingDisorder, Saturday 09 May 2015 à 01:24


Subscription date : 14 March 2014
Messages : 14
Never mind, got it sorted out..

For anyone else who stumbles on this, use the MBox format and point it to your /var/mail/username file.

(Turns out I had it set up properly after all, but I had already cleaned out the mail message that I thought was in the file so cairo was checking it properly and just didn't find any messages to notify me about hehe)

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[Locked] How to use Mail applet to check local system mail
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09 May 2015 à 01:24


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