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Mail Notification 5.0 (Default branch)
01-04-2008
Mail Notification is a status icon (aka tray icon) that informs you if you have new mail. It works with system trays implementing the freedesktop.org System Tray Specification, such as the GNOME Panel Notification Area, the Xfce Notification Area, and the KDE System Tray. Mail Notification features include multiple mailbox support, Evolution, Gmail, IMAP, Maildir, mbox, MH, Mozilla products, POP3, Sylpheed, Windows Live Hotmail and Yahoo! Mail support, SASL and APOP authentication support, SSL/TLS support, automatic detection of mailbox format, immediate notification, message popups, and HIG 2.0 compliance. License: GNU General Public License v3 Changes:|
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mail-notification(1) mail-notification(1) NAME
mail-notification -- a mail notification system tray icon SYNOPSIS
mail-notification [-?|--help] [--usage] [-i|--enable-info] [-p|--display-properties] [-r|--consider-new-mail-as-read] [-a|--display-about] [-u|--update] [--unset-obsolete-configuration] [--gdk-debug=FLAGS] [--gdk-no-debug=FLAGS] [--display=DISPLAY] [--screen=SCREEN] [--sync] [--name=NAME] [--class=CLASS] [--gtk-debug=FLAGS] [--gtk-no-debug=FLAGS] [--g-fatal-warnings] [--gtk-module=MODULE] [--oaf-ior-fd=FD] [--oaf-private] [--oaf-activate-iid=IID] [--disable-sound] [--enable-sound] [--espeaker=HOST:PORT] [--version] [--sm-client-id=ID] [--sm-config-prefix=PREFIX] [--sm-disable] [--disable-crash-dialog] [--load-modules=MODULE1,MODULE2,...] [--display=DISPLAY] [-s|--print-summary] DESCRIPTION
mail-notification is a program that sits in your desktop environment's notification area (or say System Tray) and shows mail status icon. When there's no mail waiting, it doesn't show any icon, and the envelope icon appears when some of configured accounts have new mail. Also it can automatically launch the program, specified in Preferences on new mail arrival. mail-notification features include: * multiple mailbox support * mbox, MH, Maildir, Sylpheed, POP3, IMAP, Gmail and Evolution support * SASL authentication support * APOP authentication support * SSL/TLS support (disabled, see README.Debian) * automatic detection of mailbox format * immediate notification (depending on your settings) * HIG 2.0 compliance OPTIONS
These programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-'). A summary of options is included below. For a complete description, see the Info files. -? --help Show summary of options. --usage Show brief usage message. -v --version Show version of program. -i --enable-info Enable informational output. -p --display-properties Display the properties dialog. -a --display-about Display the about dialog. -u --update Update the mail status. -r --consider-new-mail-as-read Consider new mail as read. --unset-obsolete-configuration Unset obsolete GConf configuration. --display=DISPLAY X display to use. -s --print-summary Print a XML mail summary. EXAMPLES
To run this application the standard way, type: # mail-notification & To start directly into the preferences dialog or to access it while mail-notification is running, type: # mail-notification -p & AUTHOR
mail-notification was written by Jean-Yves Lefort <jylefort@brutele.be>. This manual page was written by Pascal Giard <evilynux@yahoo.com> and LIU Qi <liuqi82@gmail.com> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). Great parts were directly taken from the manpage written by Dan Korostelev <dan@ats.energo.ru>. Thanks Kai-Martin <kmk@familieknaak.de> for the updated information. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 any later version published by the Free Software Foundation. mail-notification home page http://www.nongnu.org/mailnotify SEE ALSO
mail (1) Pascal Giard and LIU Qi July 22, 2009 mail-notification(1)