Subject: incoming of mails

From: "Vani P.S" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 14:38:09 +0530 (GMT+0530)

Hi,

  Sun os has a utility mail tool which has an icon of a mail box and is
  opened whenever there is a mail, the mail tool has many other features
  of an email program but this feature is very useful. But in case of pine
  window running pine has to be kept open to be made aware of an incoming
  mail. Since i am used to working with pine, have many folders in /mail
  directory, i don't like working with mail tool. So its very cumbersome
  to switch over from mail tool to pine to process the incoming mails
  and also the mail tool prompts to quit once the pine is opened
  simultaneously. 

  is there any way that the pine's recognition of incoming mails can be
  redirected to an utility that is merely an indicator of incoming mails,
  or is there any other way?

tia,
Vani

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From: Robin S Socha <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 12:39:45 +0200 (MET DST)

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On Thu, 17 Apr 1997, Vani P.S wrote:

There are quite a few programs that can do what you need. The best I've seen
so far ist asmail. Btw, if you want to make Dos95 "users" cry, check:

	www.iis.ee.ethz.ch/~kiwi/AfterStep/
	www.screamin.demon.co.uk/afterstep.html
	defiant.gmi.edu/afterstep/

     -------------------->snip here<---------------------------
NAME
       asmail - AfterStep Mail
DESCRIPTION
The  asmail  is  a "mail-checker" like xbiff, but with the Afterstep look &
feel. It indicates the status of your mailbox. It can be put in the Wharf,
execute program on incoming mail, execute program on mouse click, show XPM
icon's, show animations and more...

By Per Liden ([email-masked]) 

HOW TO GET IT
- -------------
"Asmail Homepage":
	http://www.rby.hk-r.se/~pt95pli/asmail.html
"AfterStep FTP":
	ftp://oak.sfasu.edu/pub/AfterStep/apps/asmail-0.50.tar.gz

Or this boring one:

NAME
       xbiff - mailbox flag for X
DESCRIPTION
The  xbiff  program  displays a little image of a mailbox. When there is no
mail, the flag on the mailbox is down. When mail arrives, the flag goes up
and the mailbox beeps. By default, pressing any mouse button in the image
forces xbiff to remember the current size of the mail file as being the
`empty' size and to lower the flag.
     -------------------->snip here<---------------------------

Hope that helps.

Cheers,
Robin

  >  of an email program but this feature is very useful. But in case of
  >  pine window running pine has to be kept open to be made aware of an
  >  incoming mail. Since i am used to working with pine, have many folders
  >  in /mail directory, i don't like working with mail tool. So its very
  >  cumbersome to switch over from mail tool to pine to process the
  >  incoming mails and also the mail tool prompts to quit once the pine is
  >  opened simultaneously.
  >

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