iconmail(1L)

NAME
iconmail - Notification of mail arrival

SYNOPSIS
iconmail [ -s ] [ -x<pos> ] [ -y<pos> ] [ -f<font> ] [ -p<poll> ] [ -M<mailer> ] [ -m<mail file> ] [ -t<label> ]

DESCRIPTION
Iconmail looks for, and announces the arrival of new mail. When initially invoked, iconmail shrinks its window into a mailbox icon. When new mail arrives, iconmail rings the bell, displays a mailbox with mail in it. If the iconmail window is activated, usually by clicking on it with the mouse, It either creates a larger window with readmail running in it - if you have mail, or indicates you have no mail.

While in the readmail window, the middle mouse button activates a menu of commonly used mail commands.

iconmail recognizes the following command line flags:

-s  Don't reshape the window upon iconmail invocation.

-x<pos>
    Starting x-coordinate of readmail window.

-y<pos>
    Starting y-coordinate of readmail window.

-f<font_number>
    Font to use for readmail window.

-p<poll interval>
    Look for new mail every poll interval seconds (defaults to 60).

-M<mailer>
    Use mailer to read mail, instead of mail.

-t<label>
    labels the icon with this text

-m<mail file>
    Specifies an alternate mail file, to pee passed to the mail program with the -f flag.

BUGS
The readmail window sleeps for a second at its termination to permit mail to indicate new mail arrival while reading mail.

Destroying the mail subwindow is a bad thing to do.

FILES

/usr/spool/mail/$USER

SEE ALSO
mail(1) mgr(1L) mgrmail(1L)

AUTHOR
S. A. Uhler