wmail - watches your inbox
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
wmail recognizes the following environment variables:
- $MAIL
The location of the inbox you are using
Other mailing mechanisms like POP or IMAP are not supported. Use a
tool like fetchmail to retrieve POP or IMAP based mail.
wmail was written by Sven Geisenhainer. This man page was
written by Felipe Augusto van de Wiel.