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COOLMAIL

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
OPTIONS
EXAMPLES
X DEFAULTS
COPYRIGHT
AUTHORS
SEE ALSO

NAME

coolmail - 3D animated mail notificaion utility

SYNOPSIS

coolmail [option ...]

DESCRIPTION

Coolmail is a mail notification utility with 3D animated graphics. Coolmail watches your inbox and lets you know when you have mail. Clicking on coolmail can launch your mail reading/writing utility. While your mail utility is open, clicking on coolmail will cause it to check your inbox at that instant, without waiting for the next regular interval.

OPTIONS

-e command

Use the specified command to launch your mail utility. Command is a string, and should be in quotes if it contains spaces.

-f filename

Watch filename, instead of the default mail inbox file.

	-fr n		Set the number of frames to generate for each animation to n. Set this to an suit your preference and your machine’s graphics performance. The default is 15.
	-h		Print some help then exit.

-int n | -update n

Check your mail inbox at n-second intervals. The default is 30 seconds.

	-mono		Run in monochrome mode.
	-once		Ring bell when new mail is first detected, but not when more new mail is detected.

-af filename

Specifies the audio file to use rather than the standard system beep.

	-vol n		Value between 0 and 100 for the volume setting for both the system beep and the sound file. The default is 50.
	-v		Print version and inbox path.

Coolmail also accepts the standard X Toolkit options, such as -geometry, etc.

EXAMPLES

coolmail -e "emacs -f rmail" -int 20

Tells coolmail to check the inbox every 20 seconds, and launch the shell command, emacs -f rmail, when the user clicks on coolmail.

X DEFAULTS

This program understands the core resource names and classes as well as:
frameCount ( class FrameCount)

Specifies the number of frames to be generated per animation.

inbox ( class Inbox)

Specifies the mail inbox that coolmail will watch.

mailCommand ( class MailCommand)

Specifies the command that should be launched to read and write mail.

monochrome ( class Monochrome)

A Boolean value that enables monochrome mode when true.

soundFile ( class SoundFile)

Specifies the audio file to use rather than the standard system beep.

volume ( class Volume)

Value between 0 and 100 for the volume setting for both the system beep and the sound file.

COPYRIGHT

by Byron C. Darrah (darrah@kaiwan.com)

AUTHORS

Byron C. Darrah (darrah@kaiwan.com) Sound support added by Randall K. Sharpe (rsharpe@ncsa.uiuc.edu)