I've been looking for a good xbiff (X app which tells me if I have mail). Features I need:
- shows headers (e.g. From:) - count can be reset (to what it was before) if I look at the header and decide I don't want to read this mail right now. This should be easily doable, eg by left-clicking on the header - must either a) run on an intel-linux box and support IMAP, or b) run on a sparc-solaris box Optional features include: - running mailer program when clicked (this is really very optional) Why I need all these features: Well, I could just run a mailer all the time, but a) IMAP times out b) running one remotely is not cool (eg apps spawned by mailer, etc) My research so far shows the following: xbiff (solaris, circa 1999) Nice but doesn't do headers xbuffy 3.1 (solaris) Nice but doesn't reset count gbuffy-0.2.2 We've got the debian binary for this and it works, albeit pending reservations (don't know how to specify geometry, bypass pw auth, show headers..). There is a (debian?) patch here which we may want to apply. kbiff-2.3.12 Configure can't find kde headers. The coo thing about kbiff is it speaks multi languages. netbiff-0.9.7 Geometry seems broken, docs notwithstanding. tkbiff-3.11 Compiles and runs but - crashed X on one occasion - don't know how to set geometry - configuration *way* too complicated - don't know how to set mailer-program-on-mouse-button xlassie-1.5 Works. Bare bonez. Needs to (and does) run via shell script. Bonus: takes up almost no desktop. -chris
