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NAME

       mailsound - play sounds when mail is received

SYNOPSIS

       mailsound [-hszZvrd] soundname ...

DESCRIPTION

       mailsound  allows  a  user  to play sounds when new mail arrives.  It reads a mail message from stdin and
       uses Mark Boyns' rplay library to play sounds.  The sound that is played is determined by a configuration
       file  in  the user's home directory called .mailsounds.  Each line in this file has two parts.  The first
       part is a regular expression which will be used to match the from  address  from  a  mail  message.   The
       second  part describes what to do when a match is found.  The options in the second part are identical to
       the options on the command line.  The command line options will set defaults which will be used  if  they
       are not specified in the configuration file.
       If not specified, the mailsound program will use the following defaults:

              default sound: youvegotmail.au
              default volume:     127 (50%)

       If  the mail address does not match any of the regular expressions in the .mailsounds file, no sound will
       be played.

OPTIONS

       -h hostname:[hostname...]
              Play sounds on all of these hosts.

       -z <minsize>:<minvolume>,<maxsize>:<maxvolume>
              The volume the sound will be played at will be determined by the size of the  mail  message.   The
              sound  for a message with a size smaller than <minsize> will be played at volume <minvolume>.  The
              sound for a message with a size larger than <maxsize> will be played at volume  <maxvolume>.   The
              sound  for  a message with a size between <minsize> and <maxsize> will be played at a volume which
              is a linear interpolation between <minvolume> and <maxvolume>.

       -Z <minsize>,<maxsize>
              The sound to be played is determined by the size of the mail message.  If the message  is  smaller
              than  <minsize>,  the  first listed sound is played.  If the message is larger than <maxsize>, the
              last listed sound is played.  If the message size is between those  two  values,  the  appropriate
              sound from the list is played.

       -s <subject re>
              The  regular expression supplied will have to match the subject of the message.  If this option is
              not there, the subject of the  message  is  completely  ignored.   Be  careful  that  the  regular
              expression  does  not  contain  spaces.   Due to laziness of the author of this program, this will
              hopelessly confuse the program.

       -v <int>
              Set the volume at which the sound should be played.  The range is 0-255.

       -r     Pick a sound at random from the list of sounds provided.

       -d     Turn on debugging.  This will produce diagnostic output to stdout.

EXAMPLE

       The following could appear in the .forward file in your home directory: (This assumes that your  username
       is pickard)

              \pickard, |"/usr/local/bin/mailsound"

       Here is a sample $HOME/.mailsounds file:

              Andrew.*  -r Passing_Train riot arrp flinstones
              root.*         out!
              daemon.*  -v 220 sci_fi_fun
              MAILER.*  -S 1000,10000 cuckoo pig  Oomph
              *.        pigs

FILES

       $HOME/.mailsounds

SEE ALSO

       rplay.conf(5), rplayd(1)

AUTHOR

       This program was written by Andrew Scherpbier at San Diego State University.  He can be reached by E-mail
       as follows:

              Andrew@SDSU.Edu

       The mailsound program makes use of Mark Boyns' rplay package which can play  multiple  sounds  on  remote
       machines.
       He can be reached by E-mail as follows:

              boyns@sdsu.edu

BUGS

       The code does very little error checking.  No range checking on any of the values is done.

                                                 11 August 1993                                     MAILSOUND(1)