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 qmail's 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, --interval <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

-rc, --rcfile <string>

specify another rc-file ($HOME/.wmailrc is default)

-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 originally written by Sven Geisenhainer, with more recent updates by Doug Torrance and Jeremy Sowden. This man page was written by Felipe Augusto van de Wiel.

SEE ALSO¶

fetchmail(1).