nemail is a small program that puts itself in the background and watches mailboxes in order to report when new mail has been arrived. This will be reported on the terminal it was started. The output can also be integrated in graphical programs. This package was inspired by the Elm component newmail. The Elm Mail System was a great mail program until Michael Elkins started writing Mutt which quickly became faster, more flexible and easier to use. However, there has been no replacement for the ``newmail'' program which is subject of this package. Due to the Elm license which is not compatible with the GNU General Public License (GPL) it was not possible to combine the old code with code licensed under the GNU GPL. As a result this project had to be started from scratch. Many thanks go to the Elm Development Group who have provided me with a great mail program for several years. Many thanks to Dave Taylor who started the program back in 1986 and has even moved away from programming altogether. Installation ------------ On a GNU/Linux system running 'make' as user and 'make install' as root is sufficient. If you don't want to install the program in /usr install it with 'make prefix=/usr/local install'. On other systems you may have to tweak the code a little bit since some include files may not be present on these systems. Feel free to contact the author with details. Automake (and thus configure) is not used intentionally. More Information ---------------- I have set up a couple of web pages describing the newmail package and will publish additional information that may be useful to newmail users. Please check out: There is a mailing list set up on lists.infodrom.org that deals with development and discussions of the newmail utility. If you have questions or suggestions please subscribe to the list and post there. The source code for this package is also available through anonymous CVS at :pserver:anonymous@cvs.infodrom.org:/var/cvs/infodrom using the module newmail. Accessing this is described in detail at the web pages mentioned above. Please don't contact me personally if you don't have confidential questions or information. Please use the mailing list from above instead. Using the mailing list has a couple of advantages. Your question and comments are archived publically and properly so they can be used later as well. As another bonus somebody else than me could answer a question, hence not incrementing my workload and it's more difficult to forget about it. The submission address for the mailing list is: infodrom-newmail@lists.infodrom.org To subscribe, send a mail to majordomo@lists.infodrom.org with the body "subscribe infodrom-newmail" -- or send a mail to SmartList at infodrom-newmail-request@lists.infodrom.org with the subject "subscribe". Good luck! Enjoy the software! Joey Schulze joey@infodrom.org