This is G o o g l e's cache of http://wiki.tcl.tk/558.
G o o g l e's cache is the snapshot that we took of the page as we crawled the web.
The page may have changed since that time. Click here for the current page without highlighting.
To link to or bookmark this page, use the following url: http://www.google.com/u/UoEUCS?q=cache:XldimReGLl0J:wiki.tcl.tk/558+mail+notification+unix&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
Google is not affiliated with the authors of this page nor responsible for its content.
These search terms have been highlighted: 	mail 	notification 	unix 
------------------------------------------------------------------------

mail notification tools (i.e., biff)


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.

*	tkbiff

     [http://expect.nist.gov/tkbiff]

     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.

*	tclbiff

     (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.

*	xbiff2

     [http://www.linux-kheops.com/pub/xbiff2/xbiff2GB.html]

     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

*	mbiff

     [http://www.gnt.net/%7En5ial/Tcl]

     GUI: shows mailbox names containing new mail.
     User-definable action upon new mail: No.
     OS: UNIX
     Access: UNIX mbox
     Requires: TclX

*	tkgoodstuff

     [http://www-personal.umich.edu/%7Emarkcrim/tkgoodstuff/]

     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.

*	tkpostage

     [ftp://ftp.procplace.com/pub/tcl/sorted/packages-7.6/x11/tkpostage-1.3b/tkpostage-1.3b.tar.gz]

     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

------------------------------------------------------------------------

Updated 11 Sep 2002, 22:10 GMT  -  Edit mail notification tools (i.e., biff)
Search - Recent changes - 3 References - About Wikit - Go to The Tcler's Wiki - Help