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XBuffy - An Improved X Multibiff
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This is xbuffy, an X program designed to watch multiple mail folders for
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new mail. This version supports mbox/mh/maildir and "nntp" folders.
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This is a modified version of xbuffy 3.3 by Bill Pemberton (wfp5p@virginia.edu).
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Note that the rpm xbuffy-3.3-2 contains everything but the debian
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bugfixes and debian xbuffy-3.3-1 doesn't have the atime and mdir
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If you want to use nntp, use the --enable-nntp switch. You might want
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to set a default server by using --enable-nntp=<server name>.
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The environment variable NNTPSERVER will always override the default.
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Future versions will probably allow you to set the server in the boxfile
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(after all, how else can you watch multiple news servers?)
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If you want a "nicer" look, you can try an alternate widget set. Most
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non-linux people might want to try Motif, use the --with-motif option to
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configure. If you have an alternative Athena widget set installed, you
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can use that. Try --with-xaw3d, --with-xaw95 or --with-neXtaw. If you
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have linked an alternative Athena widget set to the libXaw shared
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library, you don't need to specify a different set.
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This version also includes LINUX specific LED blinking support if you
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compile with --enable-led. This compiles a separate program (led) which
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must be installed suid root to access the LINUX console driver. Xbuffy
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will then recognize the boxfile command 'led' to blink one of the led's
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on the keyboard to announce new mail. LED support was provided by
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Anders Johansson of Link�ping University <andersjo@lysator.liu.se>.
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The standard thing to do is to create a boxfile (I usually use
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~/.xbuffy) and place in it commands to watch your mail folders.
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audio cat /Archive/multimedia/sound/au/glass.au > /dev/audio
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command xterm -fn 7x13 -title "Mutt Incoming" -e mutt &
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command xterm -fn 7x13 -title "Mutt Received" -e mutt -f =received &
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command xterm -fn 7x13 -title "Mutt Mutt" -e mutt -f =mutt &
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command xterm -fn 7x13 -title "Mutt comp.mail.elm" -e mutt -f "[news]comp.mail.elm" &
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You specify a maildir/mh folder by pointing "box" at the directory which
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Normally, you can pick whether to show only the new messages or all of
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the messages in the mailbox when you click the left button on the
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mailbox button. With maildir/mh folders, you only get the new messages
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regardless of this setting.
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This version of xbuffy makes the same assumptions that Mutt does about
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these folders, namely that a Maildir folder is a directory with
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subdirectories of cur, tmp, and new. An MH folder is a directory with a
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.xmhcache or .mh_sequences file in it.
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- Added support for LINUX console LED blinking on new mail from
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Anders Johansson of Link�ping University <andersjo@lysator.liu.se>.
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- Improvements to configure script for finding weird install places
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for X and Motif libraries. If this doesn't find yours, you can
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still specify it with --with-motif=/path/to/motif. Please mail me
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if you're system has it somewhere else.
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- Use the debian Xresources (XBuffy.ad), they're nicer
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- Added support for autoconf configuration to replace Imake
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- Suggestions/code from Ralf Hildebrandt (R.Hildebrandt@tu-bs.de)
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- Make main() return an int to keep the Xserver from complaining
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- some platforms (HP-UX 9.x) don't have utimes(), now use substitute
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- -center can cause coredump
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- xbuffy.time.patch by David DeSimone (fox@convex.hp.com)
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- no longer crashes if mailbox doesn't exist
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- don't modify the access-time of mailboxes when checking them to
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allow other biff's to notice new mail as well
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- xbuffy.mdir.patch by Brandon Long (blong@fiction.net)
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- adds support for mh and maildir folders
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- xbuffy_3.3-1.diff debian patch by Joel Rosdahl
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- fixes a typo in the NNTP support
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- Removed a bit of NNTP correctness checking that caused problems
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- init NNTP boxes the same way you init MAIL boxes
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