
    readme for wmymail - mail checker dock application

wmymail is a dock application that shows how many messages are in your
mailbox, and how many of them are unread.  When there are new messages,
it displays one or more brightly colored envelopes.  Otherwise, it
displays a dull, gray envelope.

Normally, it looks at your $MAIL variable to see what the mailbox file
is, and checks it for changes.  It checks once per second by default.
The -i switch changes the number of seconds.

However, it will run "fetchmail -c" instead if you run it as "wmymail -F".
This can be useful for you IMAP users.  Under these circumstances, the
interval between checks is changed to once per minute rather than once
per second.  In fact the "-i" switch now sets the number of minutes
between checks.

This program forked from version 1.1 of wmail, a similar dock app with
different goals.  wmail's homepage is:

  http://www.informatik.uni-jena.de/~topical/sveng/wmail.html


INSTALLATION
============

You will need libdockapp, which can probably be found here:

  ftp://shadowmere.student.utwente.nl/pub/WindowMaker/

Then, run "make", and "strip wmymail" if desired, and finally
copy wmymail to a directory in your path.

Making it show up on your dock or wharf or pier varies greatly
according to your window manager, and won't be explained here.

