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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 mes-
	      sage  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)