WMAIL(1)

📦 version 2.3, in debian bookworm, debian trixie, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

💌 WMAIL — the wmail(1) manual, but make it cute 💌

okay bestie, sit down, we're learning wmail(1) and it's lowkey iconic ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

wmail — she watches your inbox. that's it. that's the whole job. 👀💖

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

wmail [OPTIONS]

periodt. no positional args, just vibes and options 💅

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so wmail is a Window Maker docklet that literally just... watches your inbox for you, like the world's most loyal bestie 🫶. and the inbox can be either:

  • an ordinary mbox, or
  • a directory that conforms to qmail's Maildir format

she gives you a nice little GUI that displays some useful pieces of information about your inbox 💖. no cap, it's giving "tiny window, big usefulness" energy.

💅 OPTIONS 💅

  • -display <string> — the display to use 🖥️✨
  • -c, --command <string> — the command to run on button-click ("xterm -e mail" is default) 🖱️
  • -i, --interval <number> — number of seconds between mail-status updates (1 is default) ⏰
  • -f, --familyname — tickers the family-name if available 👨‍👩‍👧
  • -fps, --frames <number> — ticker frames per second 🎞️
  • -s, --shortname — tickers the nickname (all before the '@') 🏷️
  • -sc, --symbolcolor <string> — symbol color-name 🎨
  • -fc, --fontcolor <string> — ticker-font color-name 🖍️
  • -bc, --backcolor <string> — backlight color-name 💡
  • -oc, --offcolor <string> — off-light color-name 🌑
  • -bg, --background <string> — frame-background for non-shaped window 🖼️
  • -ns, --noshape — make the dockapp non-shaped (combine with -w) 🫥
  • -n, --new — forces wmail to show new mail exclusively 🆕
  • -mb, --mailbox <string> — specify another mailbox ($MAIL is default) 📬
  • -e, --execute <string> — command to execute when receiving a new mail 🚀
  • -sf, --statusfield — consider the status-field of the mail header to distinguish unread mails 🔍
  • -rs, --readstatus <string> — status field content that your client uses to mark read mails ✅
  • -fn, --tickerfont <string> — use specified X11 font to draw the ticker 🔤
  • -rc, --rcfile <string> — specify another rc-file ($HOME/.wmailrc is default) 📄
  • -h, --help — shows this help text and exit 🙋‍♀️
  • -v, --version — shows program version and exit 🔢
  • -w, --windowed — runs the application in windowed mode 🪟

🌈 ENVIRONMENT 🌈

wmail recognizes the following environment variables, bestie:

  • $MAIL — The location of the inbox you are using 📥

💀 NOTES 💀

Other mailing mechanisms like POP or IMAP are not supported. like, at all. 🙈

use a tool like fetchmail to retrieve POP or IMAP based mail. that's the move, trust. 🧚

👑 AUTHORS 👑

wmail was originally written by Sven Geisenhainer, with more recent updates by Doug Torrance and Jeremy Sowden. This man page was written by Felipe Augusto van de Wiel. absolute legends, all of them 💜

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

fetchmail(1).

okay that's the whole page bestie, you ate that 🍓 and for the sign-off: this was wmail v2.2, dated June 2019 — you're so welcome, go check your inbox 💖✨🦋

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