Here is a listing and description of Tcl-based mail notification tools. This is not a comprehensive list. Please don't add last night's hack. Indeed, many people have written biffs - it's so trivial to write a simple one. But few are truly professional, robust, flexible, etc. Here are several that appear to be worthwhile.
- [L1 ]
- GUI: Shows message headers. Click to show messages.
- User-definable action upon new mail: Message-dependent.
- OS: Windows, UNIX, MacOS
- Access: IMAP, POP, APOP, SSL, UNIX mbox and maildir.
- (included with tkbiff - see above)
- UI: "You have mail from ..." on stdout.
- User-definable action upon new mail: Message-dependent.
- OS: UNIX
- Access: IMAP, POP, APOP, SSL, UNIX mbox and maildir.
- [L2 ]
- GUI: Shows icon for no mail or new mail.
- User-defineable action upon new mail: Message-independent.
- OS: Windows, UNIX
- Access: IMAP, POP, UNIX mbox
- BROKEN LINK - [L3 ]
- GUI: shows mailbox names containing new mail.
- User-definable action upon new mail: No.
- OS: UNIX
- Access: UNIX mbox
- Requires: TclX
- BROKEN LINK - [L4 ]
- GUI: Shows icon or count of messages in multiple mailboxes. Click to show messages.
- User-definable action upon new mail: No.
- OS: UNIX
- Access: IMAP, UNIX mbox and MH.
- Status: Development ceased as of Oct '97.
- [L5 ]
- GUI: shows count of messages. Click to show message headers.
- User-definable action upon new mail: No.
- OS: UNIX
- Access: UNIX mbox
- Status: appears orphaned, last release: 1.3b, Dec '95