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- mailbox - mail notification
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- mmmmaaaaiiiillllbbbbooooxxxx [ ----ccccllllbbbbdddd ] [ ----uuuu user ] [ ----ssss size ] [ ----LLLL latitude ]
- [ ----MMMM longitude ] [ ----SSSS label ] [ ----mmmm mail-program ] [ ----ffff mail-file ]
- [ ----CCCC envelope-counter ] [ ----BBBB beeper ] [ ----DDDD directory ] [ ----gggg XxY ] [ ----NNNN window name ]
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- DDDDEEEESSSSCCCCRRRRIIIIPPPPTTTTIIIIOOOONNNN
- _m_a_i_l_b_o_x watches your mailbox, and notifies you when you have mail. It
- displays a small picture of a mailbox to perform notification. The flag
- on the mailbox rises whenever new mail messages appear in your mailbox.
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- You can open the mailbox and read your mail by clicking on the _m_a_i_l_b_o_x
- window with the left mouse button. If one of the shift keys is held
- down, or if you have no mail, the mailbox door simply opens without
- running the mail reading program. Once you have finished reading your
- mail, the mailbox flag goes down and the door closes.
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- The number of envelopes in the mailbox corresponds to the number of
- messages in your mailbox. Manila envelopes represent five messages each.
- Each normal letter-sized envelope represent one message. _m_a_i_l_b_o_x knows
- how to count messages written by Berkeley and AT&T _m_a_i_l, and by _m_h.
- _m_a_i_l_b_o_x also understands Content-Length headers.
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- The MAIL environment variable is used to determine where to watch for
- mail. If this variable does not exist, the USER environment variable is
- appended to the string "/usr/mail", and this file is used.
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- OOOOPPPPTTTTIIIIOOOONNNNSSSS
- ----cccc Run in colormap mode. Ordinarily, the decision to display in
- colormap mode is made on the basis of available graphics hardware.
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- ----llll Run in lighted, RGB mode. This is currently a no-op.
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- ----bbbb Don't beep when mail arrives.
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- ----dddd Print out longitude and latitude on startup.
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- ----uuuu _u_s_e_r
- Watch the mail of a user other than yourself.
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- ----mmmm _m_a_i_l__p_r_o_g_r_a_m
- Execute the specified program when requested to. The argument
- following the option must be a single string. This is generally
- accomplished by putting double quotes around the string. If an
- empty string is passed, _m_a_i_l_b_o_x simply opens and closes the mailbox
- door when the window is clicked on.
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- The program string is executed by _s_y_s_t_e_m(3S), so environment
- variables and other shell substitutions can be used in this string.
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- Note that the program that is started by _m_a_i_l_b_o_x probably should
- not be a program that reads from standard input and output, since
- it tries to run in the shell window that started it. If such a
- behavior is desired, the ----mmmm option starts a _w_s_h(1G) window to
- contain the program. The default ----mmmm command used by _m_a_i_l_b_o_x is
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- _----_gggg_eeee_oooo_mmmm _8888_0000_xxxx_4444_0000 _----_nnnn_aaaa_mmmm_eeee _MMMM_aaaa_iiii_llll _----_hhhh_oooo_llll_dddd_oooo_nnnn_eeee_rrrr_rrrr_oooo_rrrr _----_eeee _////_uuuu_ssss_rrrr_////_ssss_bbbb_iiii_nnnn_////_MMMM_aaaa_iiii_llll
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- The environment variable MMMMAAAAIIIILLLLBBBBOOOOXXXXPPPPRRRROOOOGGGG can be set to specify a mail
- program in the same manner as specifying the ----mmmm switch. If the
- environment variable is set and the ----mmmm switch is not specified, the
- environment variable determines the mail program. If the
- environment variable is set and the ----mmmm switch is also specified,
- the command line mail program overrides the setting of the
- environment variable.
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- ----ssss _s_i_z_e
- Set the size of the window, in points. The default size is 96
- points, or 1.33 inches. The _m_a_i_l_b_o_x window is always square.
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- ----gggg _p_o_s_i_t_i_o_n
- Set the position of the window in pixels. The position has the
- following form: <X>x<Y> or <X>X<Y> where <X> is the X position in
- pixels and <Y> is the Y position in pixels for the lower left
- corner of the window. The origin is the lower left corner of
- screen.
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- ----LLLL _l_a_t_i_t_u_d_e
- Specify the latitude where the mailbox is located. This is used to
- determine the direction of the sun, and the times of sunset and
- sunrise. Latitudes south of the equator are specified as a
- negative number. If no latitude is specified, 37 degrees 30' N is
- assumed. The latitude can also be specified through the
- environment variable LATITUDE, which overrides the default
- latitude, but is overridden by command-line options.
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- ----MMMM _l_o_n_g_i_t_u_d_e
- Specify the longitude where the mailbox is located. This is used
- to determine the direction of the sun, and the times of sunset and
- sunrise. The default longitude is 122 degrees west. Longitudes
- are expressed as degrees west of Greenwich, England. Longitudes
- east of Greenwich are specified as negative numbers. The longitude
- can also be specified through the environment variable LONGITUDE,
- which operates in the same way as LATITUDE.
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- ----SSSS _l_a_b_e_l
- Put a small sign on top of the mailbox with the specified label
- printed on it. Unfortunately, the sign is hard to read if the
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- window is small, due to resolution limits. If this bothers you,
- make the mailbox bigger with the ----ssss option.
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- ----NNNN _w_i_n_d_o_w _n_a_m_e
- The window name is any string to be given the program as the name
- or title. X resources can then be specified for <name> and refer
- to this window.
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- ----ffff _f_i_l_e
- Specify that _m_a_i_l_b_o_x watch a file other than your system mailbox,
- as though it were a mailbox. Note that _m_a_i_l_b_o_x only puts up the
- flag if it determines that actual mail messages have been added to
- the file, by counting the number of messages. However, the ----CCCC
- option can be used to change the way that _m_a_i_l_b_o_x counts messages.
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- ----CCCC _e_n_v_e_l_o_p_e-_c_o_u_n_t_e_r
- _m_a_i_l_b_o_x usually counts the number of envelopes in your mailbox
- every time that it notices that the mailbox has been touched. If
- the number of envelopes is greater than the last time it checked,
- it raises the flag. However, you can change _m_a_i_l_b_o_x's concept of
- how to count envelopes by specifying an "envelope-counting"
- program.
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- The name of the mail file being watched is appended to the
- specified string, and the result is passed to _s_y_s_t_e_m(3S). The job
- of the counting program is to call _e_x_i_t(2) with an argument that is
- equal to the number of envelopes. If the counting program exits
- with a negative status, or if it is stopped by a signal, the number
- of envelopes is assumed to be zero. Because exit status is modulo
- 256, this is really only useful for mailboxes with less than 256
- messages.
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- This option can be used to turn _m_a_i_l_b_o_x into a more general file-
- watching program, in conjunction with the ----ffff and ----mmmm options.
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- ----BBBB _b_e_e_p_e_r
- _m_a_i_l_b_o_x usually beeps whenever it determines that new mail has
- arrived. You can override this action by providing a "beeper"
- program. Typical beeping programs might send data to /_d_e_v/_a_u_d_i_o.
- The beeping program is a string that is passed to _s_y_s_t_e_m(3S).
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- ----DDDD _d_i_r_e_c_t_o_r_y
- This option tells _m_a_i_l_b_o_x to watch the named directory instead of a
- file. When in this mode, _m_a_i_l_b_o_x assumes that each file in the
- directory (except files whose names start with '.') is a mail
- message. This mode is useful for users of the _m_h and _x_m_h(1) mail
- handling programs who choose to have messages delivered directly
- into folders using the features of _s_l_o_c_a_l. For example the
- following command tells _m_a_i_l_b_o_x to watch the _m_h folder called _i_n_b_o_x
- and to use _x_m_h as the mail reader.
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- _mmmm_aaaa_iiii_llll_bbbb_oooo_xxxx _----_DDDD _~~~~_////_MMMM_aaaa_iiii_llll_////_iiii_nnnn_bbbb_oooo_xxxx _----_SSSS _iiii_nnnn_bbbb_oooo_xxxx _----_mmmm _""""_xxxx_mmmm_hhhh _----_iiii_nnnn_iiii_tttt_iiii_aaaa_llll _iiii_nnnn_bbbb_oooo_xxxx_""""
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- The arguments to _x_m_h tell it to start with _i_n_b_o_x as its initial
- folder. This is its default. The arguments are included here for
- illustration only.
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- When _x_m_h starts it reads each message in the folder in order to
- look at its subject line. This fools _m_a_i_l_b_o_x into thinking you
- have read the message, and thus the flag can be lowered
- prematurely.
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- FFFFIIIILLLLEEEESSSS
- /usr/sbin/Mail Default mail program if the ----mmmm switch is not specified
- and $$$$MMMMAAAAIIIILLLLBBBBOOOOXXXXPPPPRRRROOOOGGGG is not set.
- $MAILBOXPROG Default mail program if the ----mmmm switch is not
- specified.
- /usr/mail/$USER Default mail file if the ----ffff switch is not specified
- and $$$$MMMMAAAAIIIILLLL is not set.
- $MAIL Default mail file if the ----ffff switch is not specified.
- AAAAUUUUTTTTHHHHOOOORRRR
- Andrew Myers
- SSSSEEEEEEEE AAAALLLLSSSSOOOO
- chkconfig(1M), mail_att(1), mail_bsd(1), su(1M).
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