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).