xfmail(1)
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 support
- ed:
- - 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> in
- stead of ~/.xfmail/ (Can be also set through XFMAILDIR environ
- ment 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 sub
- jects containing spaces.)
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
- The following environment variables affect the execution
- of XFMail:
- XFMAILRC
- The location of .xfmailrc configuration file (de
- fault 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@lat
- te.worldbank.org)
(C) 1998-2004 by the Archimedes Project - Version 1.3 Feb 1998