WMBIFF(1)WMBIFF(1)NAME
WMBiff - A dockable Mailbox Monitor
SYNOPSISwmbiff [-display <display name>] [-geometry +XPOS+YPOS] [-c <filename>]
[-h] [-v] [-debug]
DESCRIPTION
WMbiff displays the status of up to five mailboxes. It gives informa‐
tion about new mail, if any, or total number of messages. It also has
mail retrieval capabilies, and can be configured to do this automati‐
cally. 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 ses‐
sion, 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 mail‐
box, 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 displayed 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 transcript
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 others).
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 ALSOwmbiffrc(5)
/usr/share/doc/wmbiff/examples/sample.wmbiffrc (or equivalent for your
system)
wmbiff October 4, 2001 WMBIFF(1)