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xfmail

NAME

XFMail - XForms based mailer application

SYNTAX

xfmail [ options ] [ address , address ]

DESCRIPTION

XFMail is an X11 application for managing electronic mail. It was created using the XForms library toolkit by T.C. Zhao and Mark Overmars.

Three different types of mailboxes (folders) are supported:
 - standard unix mailbox (elm-style)
 - MH (compatible with mhtools)
 - IMAP (located on IMAP4 or IMAP4rev1 servers)

XFMail supports the POP, SMTP, and IMAP e-mail protocols and has full MIME support.

PGP encryption/decryption is supported through an external PGP utility.

See Help/Contents in the main menu for more info.

OPTIONS

The command line options/arguments are:

address

Send mail to address.

-help

Display help message

-display display

This option specifies the X server to contact.

-geometry geom

This option specifies the size and/or location of the window.

-private

Use private colormap

-standard

Use standard colormap

-shared

Use shared colormap

-double

Enable double buffering

-bw width

Set controls border width (-3 ... 3)

-iconic

Start iconized

-readonly

Run in readonly mode. Changes to configuration files will not be saved. More than one copy of XFMail can be started from the same account.

-cfgfile <file>

Use <file> instead of .xfmailrc (Can be also set through XFMAILRC environment variable)

-cfgdir <dir>

Set XFMail configuration directory to <dir> instead of ~/.xfmail/ (Can be also set through XFMAILDIR environment variable)

-compose

Go directly into message composer (this mode is choosed automatically if any <addrs> are specified)

-message <file>

Use <file> as message text (- for stdin)

-withhdr

Signifies that <file> used with -message contains message header as well

-subject , -s <subject>

Specify message subject (be careful to quote subjects containing spaces.)

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

The following environment variables affect the execution of XFMail:

XFMAILRC

The location of .xfmailrc configuration file (default is ~/.xfmail/.xfmailrc)

XFMAILDIR

The directory which holds XFMail configuration files (default is ~/.xfmail/)

USER

Your username

HOME

Your home directory

SEE ALSO

xforms(5), X(1), RFC822
See http://www.xfmail.org for more details

AUTHOR

Copyright : (C) 1995-1998 Gennady B. Sorokopud (gena@NetVision.net.il)
            (C) 1995 Ugen. J. S. Antsilevich (ugen@latte.worldbank.org)
            (C) 1998-2004 by the Archimedes Project