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mail-notification(1)													      mail-notification(1)

NAME

       mail-notification -- a mail notification system tray icon

SYNOPSIS

       mail-notification [-?|--help] [--usage] [-i|--enable-info]
	       [-p|--display-properties] [-r|--consider-new-mail-as-read]
	       [-a|--display-about] [-u|--update]
	       [--unset-obsolete-configuration] [--gdk-debug=FLAGS]
	       [--gdk-no-debug=FLAGS] [--display=DISPLAY]
	       [--screen=SCREEN] [--sync] [--name=NAME] [--class=CLASS]
	       [--gtk-debug=FLAGS] [--gtk-no-debug=FLAGS] [--g-fatal-warnings]
	       [--gtk-module=MODULE] [--oaf-ior-fd=FD] [--oaf-private]
	       [--oaf-activate-iid=IID] [--disable-sound] [--enable-sound]
	       [--espeaker=HOST:PORT] [--version] [--sm-client-id=ID]
	       [--sm-config-prefix=PREFIX] [--sm-disable]
	       [--disable-crash-dialog] [--load-modules=MODULE1,MODULE2,...]
	       [--display=DISPLAY] [-s|--print-summary]

DESCRIPTION

       mail-notification  is  a program that sits in your desktop environment's notification area (or say System Tray) and shows mail status icon.
       When there's  no  mail  waiting,  it doesn't show any icon, and the envelope icon appears when some of configured accounts have new   mail.
       Also  it can  automatically  launch the program, specified in Preferences on new mail arrival.

	 mail-notification features include:
		 * multiple mailbox support
		 * mbox, MH, Maildir, Sylpheed, POP3, IMAP, Gmail and Evolution support
		 * SASL authentication support
		 * APOP authentication support
		 * SSL/TLS support (disabled, see README.Debian)
		 * automatic detection of mailbox format
		 * immediate notification (depending on your settings)
		 * HIG 2.0 compliance

OPTIONS

       These  programs	follow	the  usual  GNU  command  line	syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-').  A summary of options is
       included below.	For a complete description, see the Info files.

       -?	    --help
		 Show summary of options.

       --usage	 Show brief usage message.

       -v	    --version
		 Show version of program.

       -i	    --enable-info
		 Enable informational output.

       -p	    --display-properties
		 Display the properties dialog.

       -a	    --display-about
		 Display the about dialog.

       -u	    --update
		 Update the mail status.

       -r	    --consider-new-mail-as-read
		 Consider new mail as read.

       --unset-obsolete-configuration
		 Unset obsolete GConf configuration.

       --display=DISPLAY
		 X display to use.

       -s	    --print-summary
		 Print a XML mail summary.

EXAMPLES

       To run this application the standard way, type:

       # mail-notification &

       To start directly into the preferences dialog or to access it while mail-notification is running, type:

       # mail-notification -p &

AUTHOR

       mail-notification was written by Jean-Yves Lefort <jylefort@brutele.be>.

       This manual page was written by Pascal Giard <evilynux@yahoo.com> and LIU Qi <liuqi82@gmail.com> for the Debian GNU/Linux system  (but  may
       be  used  by  others).  Great  parts  were directly taken from the manpage written by Dan Korostelev <dan@ats.energo.ru>. Thanks Kai-Martin
       <kmk@familieknaak.de> for the updated information.

       Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General  Public  License,  Version  2  any
       later version published by the Free Software Foundation.

       mail-notification home page
	      http://www.nongnu.org/mailnotify

SEE ALSO

       mail (1)

Pascal Giard and LIU Qi 					   July 22, 2009					      mail-notification(1)

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NAME

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OPTIONS

       The program follows the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-'). A summary of options is included
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       -c FILENAME, --config FILENAME
	   Configuration file to load.

       -q, --daemon
	   Enable daemon mode. imaprowl will launch as background process.

       -d, --debug
	   Enable debug output.

       -h, --help
	   Show summary of options.

       -v, --version
	   Show version of program.

FILES

       ${HOME}/.imaprowl.conf
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	   details.

ISSUES

       The program is currently limited to only work with the ruby1.9.

       The upstreams Issue tracker can be found at http://github.com/takuo/IMAProwl/issues.

AUTHOR

       Takuo Kitame <kitame@debian.org>
	   Wrote this manpage for the Debian system.

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2009 Takuo Kitame

       This manual page was written for the Debian system (and may be used by others).

       Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 or (at
       your option) any later version published by the Free Software Foundation.

       On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.

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