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76 lines
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readme for wmymail - mail checker dock application
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wmymail is a dock application that shows how many messages are in your
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mailbox, and how many of them are unread. When there are new messages,
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it displays one or more brightly colored envelopes. Otherwise, it
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displays a dull, gray envelope.
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BEHAVIOR
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mbox (local mail file) (default)
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By default, it will check your mailbox file about once per second to
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see if it has changed. If it has changed, wmymail reads it to see how
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many messages are inside, and how many have been read, and displays
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the current counts.
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* It looks at the filename specified in the $MAIL environment
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variable.
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* You can tell it to look in a different file by using the -m
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option, e.g. "wmymail -m /var/foo/mail/username"
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* You can make it check less frequently with the -i option, which
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changes the interval between mailbox checks:
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"wmymail -i 60" will make it check once per minute.
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IMAP
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If you are using IMAP for your email, you will need to use the -F
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option. This option makes wmymail run fetchmail to determine how
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many messages you have.
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Since running fetchmail takes considerably longer than checking
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a local file, wmymail checks once per minute when -F is used.
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Furthermore, the -i option now specifies the number of minutes:
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"wmymail -F -i 5" would make it check every five minutes.
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The command that wmymail runs is: "fetchmail -c"
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Therefore, you will need to have fetchmail set up and working prior
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to using wmymail.
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HISTORY
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The current maintainer is Joshua Swink, <yathster@yahoo.com>.
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This program forked from version 1.1 of wmail, a similar dock app with
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different goals.
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wmail may be found here:
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http://dockapps.org/file.php/id/70
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And here is its old homepage (no longer exists):
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http://www.informatik.uni-jena.de/~topical/sveng/wmail.html
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INSTALLATION
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You will need libdockapp, which can probably be found here:
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ftp://shadowmere.student.utwente.nl/pub/WindowMaker/
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Then, run "make", and "strip wmymail" if desired, and finally
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copy wmymail to a directory in your path.
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Making it show up on your dock or wharf or pier varies greatly
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according to your window manager, and won't be explained here.
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