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WMBIFF(1) General Commands Manual WMBIFF(1) NAME
WMBiff - A dockable Mailbox Monitor SYNOPSIS
wmbiff [-display <display name>] [-geometry +XPOS+YPOS] [-c <filename>] [-h] [-v] [-debug] DESCRIPTION
WMbiff displays the status of up to five mailboxes. It gives information about new mail, if any, or total number of messages. It also has mail retrieval capabilies, and can be configured to do this automatically. At the moment, UNIX-style, maildir, POP3, APOP and IMAP4 mail- boxes are supported. WMbiff also supports Licq history files and gnomeicu, displaying the number of new messages in your running session, as if they were mail. The mailboxes are displayed in 5 different lines, each one with its own description of up to five chars. If no mail is present in a given mailbox, WMbiff will display the total number of mails in cyan. If there's new mail in the box, the number of new messages will be dis- played in yellow. When new mail arrives, this number will optionally flash for a small period of time, and also optionally, a command can be executed on mail arrival (for example, opening your mail reader or playing a sound file). Pressing mouse button 1 will execute a command, defined in the user's config file. Mouse button 3 will execute a command to fetch mail, if defined. OPTIONS
-h Show summary of options. -v Show version of program. -display <display name> Use an alternate X Display. -geometry <geometry> Initial window position. -c <filename> Use specified config file. -debug Print verbose log of progress. BUGS
Send bug reports or suggestions to the WMBiff Development Mailing List <wmbiff-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>. Consider attaching a tran- script of your session, generated using: wmbiff -debug | tee wmbiff-log Be sure to remove any instances of your password. FILES
~/.wmbiffrc peruser wmbiff configuration file. AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Jordi Mallach <jordi@sindominio.net>, originally for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by oth- ers). WMBiff was first maintained by Gennady Belyakov. Since January 2001 it is maintained group of people that have added lots of new features to the original program. Please see the README document for a list of all the people involved. SEE ALSO
wmbiffrc(5) /usr/share/doc/wmbiff/examples/sample.wmbiffrc (or equivalent for your system) wmbiff October 4, 2001 WMBIFF(1)
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mailfrom(1) General Commands Manual mailfrom(1) NAME
mailfrom - summarize mail folders by subject and sender SYNOPSIS
status] [folder|username]... DESCRIPTION
The command reads one or more mail folders and outputs one line per message in the form: from [subject] where from is the name of the person the message is from, and subject is the subject of the message, if present. If determines that the message is from you, the from portion will read where user is the user the message was sent to. This happens when you receive a copy of a letter you sent. The default folder is your incoming mailbox, See the Operands subsection below. Options recognizes the following options: Print a brief help message summarizing the options. Number the messages using the same numbering scheme used by Very quiet mode. Only error messages are produced. This option is useful in shell scripts, where only the success or failure of the program is important, and output is not desired. Quiet mode. Output only a one-line summary for each mailbox or folder. Add a summary of the number of messages by message status in each mailbox or folder. To get the summary only, use this with the option. The summary has the form: If an item count, n, r, or u is zero, the line is omitted. Only display headers from messages with the given status. status can be one of or and are equivalent. The option can be repeated to print header information from more than one category, for example, only new and unread messages. The values can be abbreviated to their first letters. The default is all messages. Tidy mode. If the from field is long enough to displace the subject field from its normal start column, move the subject down onto the next line. Verbose mode. Print a descriptive header before listing the contents of each mailbox or folder. Operands recognizes the following optional operands: folder|username A file name or the name of a mail user on your system. You can use the format to specify a folder in your mail directory, defined by the string variable in your configuration file. searches for the value as a file name relative to your current directory. Then, if the file name is not an absolute path, it searches for the value relative to the incoming mailbox directory, The first file found is selected. You must have read access to the file. RETURN VALUE
returns the following values: Messages matching status are present. No messages matching status are present, but there are some messages. There are no messages at all. An error occurred. If multiple mailboxes or folders are specified, the exit status only applies to the last one examined. This can be used in scripts to determine what kind of mail a user has. EXAMPLES
Display header information from all the messages in your mailbox. Display header information from all new messages in your mailbox. Assuming you have the proper file permissions to read mail, print out header information from all new and unread messages in incoming mail- box. Print only a summary of how many new, unread, and read messages are in your incoming mailbox. AUTHOR
was developed by HP. FILES
Your configuration file. Directory of incoming mailboxes. SEE ALSO
elm(1), mail(1), mailx(1), readmail(1). mailfrom(1)