Re: Looking for a counting (x)biff

[Damon Muller <damon@empire.net.au>]

Greets,

> I am looking for a biff type program that counts the number of new
> messages in a file and continuously updates its display.  I would prefer
> a X based program.  Does anything like this exist?  I would like to
> use this to keep track of all the mailing lists that I subscribe to and
> are filtered with procmail to seperate files.  Does such a beast exist?

I believe xbuffy can do this, but I don't know if there is a debian
package for it. It can monitor multiple mailboxes (or qmail Maildirs,
once patched appropriately) and shows you he number of new messages. A
click on it will also show the Subject lines of the messages.

Unfortunately I can't rememeber where I got it, but a search should turn
it up, and if it's not deb'd, it's pretty easy to compile yourself.

Only thing I didn't like about it is it's a bit boring (asmail is so
much sexier) and I couldn't get it to sit in the AfterStep Wharf.

damon

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