gnubiff(1)

📦 version 2.2.17, in arch rolling, debian bookworm, debian trixie, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

💌 gnubiff — bestie's guide to the mail notification icon 💌

okay so this is the manual page for gnubiff, which lives in the gnubiff Manual Pages section of your friendly neighbourhood man setup. it's giving "your mailbox but make it ✨aesthetic✨" and honestly? obsessed. 🎀

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

gnubiff [options]

that's it. that's the whole summoning ritual. 💅

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so picture this: gnubiff is a mail notification program. like, it checks for mail, and when new mail shows up it displays headers and lets you read the first lines of new messages. it's the little guy that goes "bestie… you have mail 👀" without you having to open a whole entire mail client.

it relies on the GNOME and GTK libraries — but here's the tea — it can be compiled and used with or without GNOME support. so no gatekeeping, it works either way. 🫶

the supported protocols are, and i need you to keep these exactly as-is because they're the whole personality:

  • pop3
  • apop
  • imap4
  • mh
  • qmail
  • mailfile

and on top of that, gnubiff is fully configurable with a lot of options — we're talking polltime, poptime, sounds, mail reader, mailbox names, etc. — and it can also filter spam. iconic behaviour, no cap. 🔥

⚠️ real talk though: gnubiff is not a mail reader. even if it offers the possibility of reading the very first lines of new messages. so if you're about to send feature requests asking for specific features to be implemented — keep that in mind! 😭 like, she is a notifier, not a whole mail suite. respect her lane. 💅

✨ OPTIONS ✨

gnubiff accepts the following command line options:

  • -c filename, --config filename — use the specified file as the configuration file. (default is ~/.gnubiffrc, in case you were wondering, and you were wondering 🍓)
  • -n, --noconfigure — skip the configure process. just… don't do the config thing. we're skipping it. ✨
  • --nogui — start gnubiff without GUI. headless era. 👑
  • --systemtray — start gnubiff in the system tray. little icon in the corner, main character energy, watching your inbox. 🌈
  • -?, --help — show summary of options. the classic "wait what does this do" button. 🙈
  • -v, --version — print version information. for when you gotta know exactly which one you're running. ⭐

📁 FILES 📁

  • ~/.gnubiffrc — user specific options file 💖

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

more documentation about gnubiff can be found in the info pages with the command:

info gnubiff

like, go read the info pages. she has layers. 🦋

💀 BUGS 💀

None known.

(i know. stunning. flawless. we love to see it. 🎀✨)

🫶 AUTHORS 🫶

gnubiff was developed by Nicolas Rougier <Nicolas.Rougier@loria.fr> and is currently maintained by Robert Sowada <sowadart@gmx.de>. 💜

this manpage was written by Roland Stigge <stigge@antcom.de> for Debian. it can be used elsewhere, of course. 🌍

okay that's the whole page bestie, you're fully caught up 💅✨ this was Version 2.2.14, dated 7 February 2010 — yes, she's an elder but she's still serving, and the manual name is gnubiff in case you forgot where you were. mwah. 🎀💖🦋

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