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168 lines
7.4 KiB
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WMpop3LB2.4
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Written by Louis-Benoit JOURDAIN (lb@jourdain.org)
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This software is based on Wmpop3-0.5.6 by Scott Holden ( scotth@thezone.net )
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WARNING!!! WMPop3LB is to be used at your own risk. I will not be held
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responsible for any damages this application may cause to your system.
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1) WHAT IS THIS
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WMPop3LB is a multi POP3 mail box checker. It will connect to up to 6
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POP3 servers to check if you have mail, get the "From:" and "Subject:"
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header fields of each mail and display them in a 7 lines window.
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If there are more than 7 mails, they can be read by scrolling the window
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up and down.
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Messages can be deleted directly off the servers by selecting the mails
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to delete and clicking the "delete" button.
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A command to spawn can be specified for each new received message, for
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selected messages (by clicking on the "open" button) or to launch a
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mailclient.
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2) How do I configure WMPop3LB
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WMPop3LB when first executed will check if there is a .wmpop3rc file in
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the user's home directory, it will create it if it can not be located.
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This file must be edited and the following fields must be changed :
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-- before any [server] section:
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1) autochecking: This allows to disable or enable auto mail checking.
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1 enables, 0 disables
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2) displaydelay: this will determine how long error messages show up
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before the screen is cleaned up.
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3) scrollspeed: this is a percentage of the original scrolling speed.
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Higher than 100, the text will scroll faster, lower than 100, the
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text will scroll more slowly.
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4) tempdir: directory to put temporary mails retrieved when using %c, %C or
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%m wildcards (default: /tmp).
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5) viewallmessages: This allows for alternating mail views upon startup,
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0 shows the From: and Subject: header fields of each mail, (message
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view mode)
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1 shows the total number of messages or the number of unread
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messages, per domain, and the number of selected messages (summary view
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mode).
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-- for each [server] section (you can list up to 6 [server] sections):
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1) popserver: this is the name of the pop3 server to contact.
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2) port: this is the port the pop3 server is on ( default 110).
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3) username: user's pop3 login name.
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4) password: user's pop3 login password.
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5) alias: 3 alphanum characters server alias name, to
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differentiate servers in the display window.
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6) mailcheckdelay: Number of minutes, before checking mail on this server.
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(default = 10 minutes)
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7) countunreadonly: in the counter view, 0 displays the total number of
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messages on the server, 1 displays only the number of unread
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messages.
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8) mailclient: command to launch when clicking on the server alias name in
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summary view mode.
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The command, if it contains spaces or special characters
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must be written between double quotes (`"').
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See "template substitution" for more options.
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9) newmailcommand: command to launch when a new mail has arrived on the
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server.
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See "template substitution" for more options.
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10) selectedmesgcommand: command to launch on selected messages.
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See "template substitution" for more options.
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11) mailseparator: specify a separator to include between each mail when
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using %c or %C template substitutions.
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12) maxdlsize: in the case of the %c, %C and %m template substitutions, will
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not download messages bigger than this value (-1: no limit).
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3) Using WMPop3.
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1) If you have no mail, WMPop3LB will show "No mesg" and will count down
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the time before the next cheking.
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If none of the configured server can be contacted, WMPop3LB will
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show "ERROR" and will count down the time before the next checking.
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2) If you have mails, WMPop3LB will display a line for each mail, and will
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start scrolling the display, showing the server alias identifier, the
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"From:" and "Subject:" header fields in the following format:
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"alias:<from field>/<subject field> * "
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* each time a new mail is received, wmpop3lb will try to launch the
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newmailcommand if it is specified in the configuration file.
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3) Depending on the option chosen for viewallmessages, it will display
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either:
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a) the alias, The From: and Subject: fields of each mail as
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described above.
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b) The total number of messages or the number of unread messages
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(depending on the configuration parameter "countunreadonly") on
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the POP3 server (if the server has been contacted successfully)
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as well as the number of messages selected.
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Switching between number of unread messages and total number of
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messages can be done by clicking on the right side of each server
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line (':' means total number, '-' means total number of unread).
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If the server cannot be contacted, it will show one of the
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following error message:
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- alias: C*ER --> connection error
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- alias: L*ER --> login error (wrong login or passwd)
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- alias: M*ER --> can't get mails.
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* The far most right button is used to toggle both views.
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4) To delete one or more messages directly off one or more servers,
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select the messages you want to delete and then click on the bottom
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left "DEL" button.
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You can check how many messages are selected by switching view
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mode.
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A status per server will show up during "displaydelay" seconds with the
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following error codes:
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- OK: messages were deleted successfully from the server
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- NONE: no message was selected for this server
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- D:nb: nb messages failed to be deleted.
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- Err: an error has occured (connection or else).
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WMPop3LB will not allow you to delete messages if the content of the
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mailbox on the server has changed since last checking.
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It will instead display an error message ("mailbox content has
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changed between updates del can.") and reload the content of the
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mailbox from the server.
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5) If a message is selected in the message view mode, the "reload" button
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will change to represent an "open" button.
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Clicking on this button will launch the command specified in the
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configuration file by the selectedmesgcommand parameter.
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6) to select all the messages, go to the summary view mode and click on
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"sel:" (left side of the last displayed line).
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to unselect all the messages, click on the right side of that line.
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7) To manually check for mail at any time, mouse click on the
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2nd button from the left, with a round arrow, if no message is selected.
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8) To turn off auto mail checking, mouse click on the "ch" button (second
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from the right).
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9) If you have more than 7 messages on all your servers you can scroll the
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window up and down using the up and down arrows or by using the
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scrollbar.
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4) known problems / TODO
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1) wmpop3lb was built on the existing source code of wmpop3, written by
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Scott Holden (scotth@thezone.net).
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I didn't touch a lot the network functions, which are still using
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blocking sockets and connections.
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Because of that, if there is any network problem while waiting for some
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data, wmpop3lb will hang forever.
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The only solution, for the moment, is to restart wmpop3lb.
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Next version will use non-blocking sockets.
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