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I am trying to get procmail to work with libnotify (notify-send). My .procmailrc has a couple of recipes, which just essentially filter mails into different folders.. nothing fancy.

Most of my recipes are like:

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* ^TO_*(address)
FOLDER/

I add the following to my .procmailrc, after all the rules. I copied this recipe from Google. What I want is that on every new mail (before or after processing my other recipes), notify-send command below is run.

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| DISPLAY=:0.0 notify-send "New mail!"

But This doesn't work. What am I doing wrong??

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  • Do you get any error messages in your procmail log? – larsks Mar 24 '15 at 23:49
  • @larsks: I got it working by setting Xauthority path. However, I still don't know if my rule is OK or not. – ConfusedRecipe Mar 25 '15 at 03:33
  • You need to make your notification rule the first `procmail` rule in your setup. As it stands, your email is consumed by whatever rule matches it first, so it never gets to the notification rule; having the notification rule first, with a `c` flag (carbon copy), ensures your email will cause a notification and will still be processed by the following rules. – Stephen Kitt Mar 25 '15 at 08:51

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