1 name : wmail (Window Maker DockApp email flag)
3 last update : Oct 13 2000
7 This is wmail - a little dockable application watching your email-file
8 and signaling changes. It works quite similar to xbiff
9 but provides a more informative, more interactive and yes, more colorful nice
10 little gui displaying some useful pieces of state-informations about that
12 It uses the $MAIL environment-variable to locate the email-file you are using,
13 other mailing mechanisms like POP or IMAP are currently not supported.
15 It shows the following:
17 - a mail-icon in the upper-left if the file contains some mails
18 - a frequently blinking mail-text in the upper-right if there are unread mails
19 - a ticker displaying eighter the complete mail-adress, it's name-part or the
21 - the number of emails stored in the file
23 In addition, the button labeled `Client' allowes you to quickly run your
24 preferred email-client.
26 Last, there are some attributes you can customize via the command-line.
27 So it's possible to set the interval-time between the updates, the
28 shell-command to run the client, what the ticker has to show and what colors
29 should be used. Custom coloring is what every dockapp should support, but
30 unfortunatly most didn't came with this nice and useful feature :(
32 Bugs: be sure there are! Since many time and motivation is needed to clean
33 even such a little app properly there are good chances this friendly toy
34 will change into an aggressive animal ready to cause irreversible damage -
35 thus, keep in mind this code comes with absolutly no warran...blablabla
36 >>Please let me know, if something works wrong<<
40 this application needs libdockapp v0.2 or newer
44 this code is known to work under linux v2.10 and osf v3.2 (tested)
45 together with Window Maker v0.60.0 and docklib v0.2. I've provided a simple
46 Makefile you can use to build the binary - edit that file to suit your needs.
50 try wmail -h to see a list of options.
54 www.crosswinds.net/~sveniboy/wmail.html
58 Sven Geisenhainer <sveng@informatik.uni-jena.de>
62 Thanx to all the GNUstep and Window Maker people who've provided us
63 with such a great user environment!