Maybe this can help you (I'm refering to the previous post)

This is my question:
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1- I am using fetchmail
2- fetchmail allows you to "check" but not "fetch" with the -c flag
3- I thought I'd write a script to check for email, so that I get a text message
on my terminal when I get an email (because it's IMAP)

This is the script:

#!/usr/bin/env zsh

if echo `fetchmail -c -f ~path/to/my/fetchmailrc`| grep -q 'message'; then
  exit
else

missatge=$(echo `fetchmail -c -f ~path/to/my/fetchmail/fetchmailrc` | gawk '{print "you have "$2" "$3" waiting, my dear..."}')

echo -e "\033[34m\033[1m$missatge"

fi

0-59/1 * * * * $HOME/bin/fetchmailnotification.sh

Cronjobs do not have any terminals associated with them. You cannot interact with a cronjob. Infact, the very purpose of cronjobs is to run without any manual intervention.

So do not expect any pop-ups or prompts from your cron job. Cron does not work that way.

ok... nice to learn new things...

I though cron would just run the script as it is and behave as I would expect bit it doesn't...

Do you have a solution then to run the script, say, every 20 minutes?

That's right. Anyway you could try something like:

echo "whatever" | write userX pts/X

Hi grial,

that's a promising thing indeed!

now my who yields

elachistos| who                                                                                                                              
pau      :0           2006-12-12 11:43
pau      pts/0        2006-12-12 11:44 (:0.0)
pau      pts/1        2006-12-12 12:29 (:0.0)
pau      pts/2        2006-12-12 13:54 (:0.0)
pau      pts/4        2006-12-12 13:58 (:0.0)

Mmmh... there's a little problem... write is verbose

elachistos|                                                                                                                                  
Message from pau@elachistos on pts/2 at 14:20 ...
^[[34m^[[1mhola
EOF

bump...

any heeeelp!!! please somebody help meeeee

Well... I'd be also happy if somebody could point out a command line email notification system which can deal with IMAP