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NAME
wmail - watches your inbox
SYNOPSIS
wmail [OPTIONS]
DESCRIPTION
wmail is a Window Maker docklet watching your inbox, which is either a ordinary mbox or a directory conforming to qmails Maildir format. It
provides a nice little GUI displaying some useful pieces of information about your inbox.
-display <string>
display to use
-c, --command <string>
command to run on button-click ("xterm -e mail" is default)
-i, --intervall <number>
number of seconds between mail-status updates (1 is default)
-f, --familyname
tickers the family-name if available
-fps, --frames <number>
ticker frames per second
-s, --shortname
tickers the nickname (all before the '@')
-sc, --symbolcolor <string>
symbol color-name
-fc, --fontcolor <string>
ticker-font color-name
-bc, --backcolor <string>
backlight color-name
-oc, --offcolor <string>
off-light color-name
-bg, --background <string>
frame-background for non-shaped window
-ns, --noshape
make the dockapp non-shaped (combine with -w)
-n, --new
forces wmail to show new mail exclusively
-mb, --mailbox <string>
specify another mailbox ($MAIL is default)
-e, --execute <string>
command to execute when receiving a new mail
-sf, --statusfield
consider the status-field of the mail header to distinguish unread mails
-rs, --readstatus <string>
status field content that your client uses to mark read mails
-fn, --tickerfont <string>
use specified X11 font to draw the ticker
-h, --help
shows this help text and exit
-v, --version
shows program version and exit
-w, --windowed
runs the application in windowed mode
ENVIRONMENT
wmail recognizes the following environment variables:
$MAIL
The location of the inbox you are using
NOTES
Other mailing mechanisms like POP or IMAP are not supported. Use a tool like fetchmail to retrieve POP or IMAP based mail.
AUTHORS
wmail was written by Sven Geisenhainer. This man page was written by Felipe Augusto van de Wiel.
SEE ALSO
fetchmail(1).
July 2006 wmail v2.0 (C) 2000~2002 Sven Geisenhainer WMAIL(1)