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NAME

       asmailrc - the asmail resource file

SYNOPSIS

       $HOME/.asmailrc

DESCRIPTION

       The asmailrc is a resource file that describes the configuration of the
       asmail(1) program.

RESOURCE FILE SYNTAX

       The syntax is  based  on  grouping  relevant  options  with  {}  (curly
       braces).  The  keyword  before the opening brace tells asmail what this
       section is related to. The keywords in one section may  be  invalid  or
       have different semantics in another section.

       All  keywords  are  case-insensitive, so there is no difference between
       "mailbox" and "Mailbox". However, the  values  you  give  to  the  file
       names,  user  names  and  so  on are case-sensitive as is usual on Unix
       systems. Comments start with the # (hash sign) and run until the end of
       the line. Comments and blank lines are ignored.

       There  are two main sections within the resource file. Each of them may
       be completely omitted, as well as other sections and  settings  may  be
       omitted.  asmail  will  try to use default values for everything you do
       not specify.

       The later values overwrite earlier values. It is  perfectly  acceptable
       to  specify  any  option  twice  and  the  last value will be used. One
       exception from this is the animate{} section  where  pixmap  files  are
       added to the list by multiple occurences of the keywords.

       Section  name  must  be followed by { (opening brace) on the same line.
       The end of a section is signalled by } (closing brace) alone on a line.

       x11
              The top-level section describing the GUI settings.

       mailbox
              The top-level section describing the mailboxes to be monitored

       stat
              The  section  may appear within the x11{} section.  This section
              describes what statistics should be shown on the screen.

       animate
              The section may appear within the x11{} section.   This  section
              describes  the  pixmaps that will be used instead of the default
              ones and the settings for the animation.

x11 section

       The x11 section specifies how the  application  looks  on  the  screen.
       There may be multiple x11{} sections, the settings from all of them are
       merged and later settings overwrite earlier settings.

       beep [yes|no]
              When beep is on, the tool will signal arrival of new  e-mail  by
              the system beep via the system speaker.

              Default is yes.

       shape [yes|no]
              Specifies  whether  the Shape extensions of X11 will be used for
              drawing the pixmaps that are specified by frame, nomail, old and
              new keywords in the settings file.

              When  the  Shape  extensions  are  used,  the  tool will use the
              transparency settings of the pixmaps. That  is,  when  a  pixmap
              contains  transparent  pixels, those pixels will become actually
              transparent on the screen. With the Shape  extensions  disabled,
              the  transparent  pixels will show up filled with the background
              color.

              The Shape extension is rather expensive on the CPU power and may
              slow down things a lot on a slow machine.

              Default is no.

       on_mouse_left comand &
              The  command  will  be  executed  when the application window is
              clicked with the left mouse button.

              Default is none.

       on_mouse_middle comand &
              Same as on_mouse_left for the middle mouse button.

       on_mouse_right comand &
              Same as on_mouse_left for the right mouse button.

       on_new_mail command &
              The command will be executed once for each mailbox when  the  e-
              mail arrives to that mailbox.

              Default is none.

mailbox section

       The  resource  file  should  contain  as many mailbox{} sections as the
       number of mailboxes you want to monitor. Each  section  will  create  a
       separate monitor for the given mailbox.

       type [ mbox | maildir | mh | pop3 | imap ]
              The type of the mailbox. mbox is the standard UNIX mailbox file.
              maildir is  the  newer  Maildir  format.   mh  is  the  mH  mail
              directory  format.   pop3  is for the mailboxes on POP3 servers.
              imap is a mailbox on the IMAP server.

              Depending on the type of the mailbox,  some  settings  may  take
              effect while others will be silently ignored.

              The following keywords are useful for the mbox:
                  file update unread-is-new

              The following keywords are useful for the maildir:
                  file update

              The following keywords are useful for the mh:
                  file update unread-is-new use-mh-sequences

              The following keywords are useful for the pop3:
                  update auth server user password timeout

              The following keywords are useful for the imap:
                  update server user password mailbox ssl trustedCaDir timeout
              persistent

       file file-name
              For mbox, mh and maildir, specifies the location of the  mailbox
              in the filesystem.

              Default: none.

              Note: if no mailbox section is present in the configuration file
              or no configuration file is found, the value of the  environment
              variable  $MAIL will be used as the location of the UNIX mailbox
              format mail file.

       update period
              Specifies the period between two updates of  this  mailbox.  The
              mailbox will be updated period seconds after the previous update
              is finished.

              Default: 10.

       unread-is-new [ yes | no ]
              For mbox and  mh,  specifies  whether  the  messages  which  are
              flagged as unread are counted as new messages.

              Default: no.

       use-mh-sequences [ yes | no ]
              For  mh, specifies whether asmail should parse the .mh_sequences
              file in this mH mail directory to count new  messages.  If  this
              option  is  set to "no", then asmail will parse every message in
              the mH directory searching for "Status" headers.

              Default: no.

       auth plain md5
              Specifies the  type  of  authentication  allowed  for  the  POP3
              service.     plain    stands    for   the   cleartext   password
              authentication, md5 stands for the APOP authentication using MD5
              hashes.  You can specify either of them or both.

              If  both  are  allowed  and the server supports APOP, first APOP
              will be tried.

              Default: plain md5.

       server server-name
              The server name to connect to.

              Default: none.

       user user-name
              Your user name on the server.

              Default: none.

       password your-password
              Your password on the server.

              Default: none.

       mailbox mailbox-name
              Your mailbox on the  server.  This  is  only  useful  with  IMAP
              servers,  you can specify an alternative to the standard "INBOX"
              value.

              Default: INBOX for IMAP, none for the rest.

       timeout server-timeout
              The connection to the server will time out after  server-timeout
              seconds waiting for the answer.

              Default: 60.

       ssl [ yes | no ]
              Use an encrypted connection to the IMAP server.

              Default: no.

       trustedCaDir directory
              A  directory that contains trusted certificate authorities. This
              is used to verify a server’s  certificate  when  negotiating  an
              encrypted connection.

              Default: none.

       persistent [ yes | no ]
              The  connection to the server can be either opened once and kept
              open or the connection can be opened and closed  every  time  we
              need  to  check  for the e-mail status, i.e. every update period
              seconds. If you do not want  the  connection  set-up  and  login
              procedure to execute every time, set this to yes.

              Default: no.

stat section

       This  section  relates  to  the representation on the screen of mailbox
       status  and  counters.  There  are  the  following  elements  in   this
       representation:

           mailbox state
           A letter R appears whenever the mailbox is
           being updated.

           error state
           A letter appears that shows the error state of
           the mailbox.
           The letters may be folowing:
             L - login procedure failed
             T - timeout while waiting for server response
             C - connection problem
             F - general fault indication
           When an error is indicated, asmail prints a
           descriptive message on the standard output.

           number of messages
           The number of messages is represented by two numbers,
           for the number of new messages and the total number
           of messages.

       The statistics may be displayed for each of the mailboxes separately as
       well as for the total of all mailboxes. When the  total  is  displayed,
       the  indicators of the mailbox state and the error state will report if
       any of mailboxes are updated or have errors.

       each [ yes | no ]
              Whether the tool should display a line of statistics for each of
              the mailboxes separately.

              Default: no.

       total [ yes | no ]
              Whether  the  tool should display the summary line for the total
              number of messages in all mailboxes.

              Default: yes.

       status [ yes | no ]
              Whether  the  status  indicator  should   preceed   every   line
              describing the number of messages in a mailbox and the total.

              Default: yes.

       old [ yes | no ]
              Whether  the  status  indicator should display the number of old
              (read) messages in the mailbox.

              Default: yes.

       new [ yes | no ]
              Whether the status indicator should display the  number  of  new
              (unread) messages in the mailbox.

              Default: yes.

       delimiter characters
              The  characters  are used to separate the number of new messages
              from the number of old messages in the display.

              Default: "/".

       x pixels
              Start the status indicator at pixels  offset  horizontally  from
              the top left corner.

              Default: 0.

       y pixels
              Start  the status indicator at pixels offset vertically from the
              top left corner.

              Default: 52.

       font font-specification
              Use the font-specification for the status indicator.

              Default: -*-*-medium-r-normal--10-*-*-*-*-*-*-*.

       color name
              Use the specified color for the status indicator. The color  may
              be a single word or multiple words surrounded by quotes.

              Default: black.

animate section

       The section describes the animation presented on the screen. Basically,
       you can supply a number of XPM files in this section and the tool  will
       happily  cycle  through them. There are three states: nomail, old, new.
       For each state, you add as many XPM files as you like. If there is only
       one  file,  asmail will not really cycle through it, only display once,
       saving thus the system resources.

       refresh refresh-rate
              The supplied XPM files are  cycled  through  every  refresh-rate
              number of 1/100th of a second.

              Default: 10.

       nomail xpm-file
              Add  this  xpm-file to the animation of display to represent the
              state of empty mailbox.

       old xpm-file
              Add this xpm-file to the animation of display to  represent  the
              state of mailbox with only read mail.

       new xpm-file
              Add  this  xpm-file to the animation of display to represent the
              state of mailbox when there is new e-mail in it.

       frame xpm-file
              Use this xpm-file as the background image. The background  image
              may use transparency. You can specify more than one but only the
              first one will be used.

              You can specify the keyword none instead of the name of the file
              to  be  used  for  the frame. The result will be no frame at all
              around the applet window.

EXAMPLE

        x11 {
           beep no
           on_mouse_left aterm -e bash -c pine &
           on_new_mail cat /usr/local/share/asmail/sounds/drip.au > /dev/audio
       &
           shape yes
           stat {
             each yes
             total yes
             delimiter " "
             x 5
             y 2
             font -*-helvetica-bold-r-*-*-10-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
             color black
           }
           animate {
             refresh 10
             nomail /usr/local/share/asmail/pixmaps/e-no.xpm
             old /usr/local/share/asmail/pixmaps/e0.xpm
             new /usr/local/share/asmail/pixmaps/e1.xpm
             new /usr/local/share/asmail/pixmaps/e2.xpm
             new /usr/local/share/asmail/pixmaps/e3.xpm
             new /usr/local/share/asmail/pixmaps/e4.xpm
             new /usr/local/share/asmail/pixmaps/e5.xpm
             new /usr/local/share/asmail/pixmaps/e6.xpm
             new /usr/local/share/asmail/pixmaps/e7.xpm
             new /usr/local/share/asmail/pixmaps/e8.xpm
             new /usr/local/share/asmail/pixmaps/e9.xpm
             new /usr/local/share/asmail/pixmaps/e10.xpm
             new /usr/local/share/asmail/pixmaps/e11.xpm
             new /usr/local/share/asmail/pixmaps/e12.xpm
             new /usr/local/share/asmail/pixmaps/e13.xpm
             new /usr/local/share/asmail/pixmaps/e14.xpm
             new /usr/local/share/asmail/pixmaps/e15.xpm
             new /usr/local/share/asmail/pixmaps/e16.xpm
             new /usr/local/share/asmail/pixmaps/e17.xpm
             new /usr/local/share/asmail/pixmaps/e18.xpm
             new /usr/local/share/asmail/pixmaps/e19.xpm
             new /usr/local/share/asmail/pixmaps/e20.xpm
             new /usr/local/share/asmail/pixmaps/e21.xpm
             new /usr/local/share/asmail/pixmaps/e22.xpm
             new /usr/local/share/asmail/pixmaps/e23.xpm
             new /usr/local/share/asmail/pixmaps/e24.xpm
             new /usr/local/share/asmail/pixmaps/e25.xpm
             new /usr/local/share/asmail/pixmaps/e26.xpm
             new /usr/local/share/asmail/pixmaps/e27.xpm
             new /usr/local/share/asmail/pixmaps/e28.xpm
             new /usr/local/share/asmail/pixmaps/e29.xpm
             new /usr/local/share/asmail/pixmaps/e30.xpm
           }
        }

        mailbox {
           type mbox
           file /var/spool/mail/albert
           update 5
           unread-is-new no
        }

        mailbox {
           type maildir
           file /home/albert/MailDir
           update 5
        }

        mailbox {
           type mh
           file /home/albert/mhmail
           update 5
           unread-is-new yes
           use-mh-sequences yes
        }

        mailbox {
           type pop3
           auth plain md5
           server example.com
           user yourname
           password yourpassword
           update 120
           timeout 30
        }

        mailbox {
           type imap
           server example.org
           user yourname
           password yourpassword
           update 60
           timeout 30
           ssl yes
           trustedCaDir /etc/openssl/certs/myCa/
        }

FILES

       ~/.asmailrc

SEE ALSO

       asmail(1)

COPYRIGHTS

       Copyright (c) 2002-2007  Albert Dorofeev <albert@tigr.net>

       Distributed  under GNU General Public License v2 ; see LICENSE file for
       more informations.

AUTHORS

       Albert "Tigr" Dorofeev <albert@tigr.net>

       See the README file for credits.