sendmail new mail notification to external address only with the first unread email

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Published on 2012-04-11T19:14:30Z Indexed on 2012/04/12 17:32 UTC
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I'm running a webserver with a contact form which triggers a php script to sendmail the message to a local account on the server, and I want to be notified on my regular email account when I got new messages.

I could have a notification per email or just send the emails directly to my account but that'd be too much: I just want a "you have new mail" notification sent to my email every time the inbox turns from 0 unread messages to 1.

Google is burying me in sendmail documentation, and still can't find anything about it.

Any ideas?

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