Based on code from osd_clock
Copyright (C) 2001, Jon Beckham <leftorium@leftorium.net>

Based on code from mailcheck
Copyright 1996, 1997, 1998 Jefferson E. Noxon <jeff@planetfall.com>

Requires:
        xosd-2.1.2
You need to ensure that xosd.h is somewhere in your include path. It
is isn't there by default (on my install anyway).


Description:

This release contains two programs osd_mail and osd_mailplus. 

osd_mail: Check mbox style mail boxes for new mail, display names of
mailboxes with new mail on screen. On startup ~/.mailcheckrc is
checked for a list of mboxes to watch. List the files one per line.

[~]$ osd_mail -help
USAGE: ./osd_mail [-flag args]
        -f      fully qualified font.  default: fixed
        -c      colour.  default: red
        -s      drop shadow offset.  default: 2
        -v      vertical position (t,m or b) (default: b)
        -z      horiZontal position (l,c or r) (default: l)
        -o      offset value to raise or lower around panels.  def: 0
        -d      Delay (time to stay on screen when after update)
                in seconds. default: 3
        -h      this help message

osd_mailplus: Check mbox, POP3 and IMAP mail boxes for new mail and
display names of those with new messages. On startup ~/.osd_mailplusrc
is checked for a list of mail boxes to watch. Use the following format:

mbox <mbox_path>
pop3 <server> <username> <password>
imap <server> <username> <password>

[~]$ osd_mailplus -help
USAGE: ./osd_mailplus [-flag args]
        -f      fully qualified font.  default: fixed
        -c      colour.  default: red
        -s      drop shadow offset.  default: 2
        -v      vertical position (t,m or b) (default: b)
        -z      horiZontal position (l,c or r) (default: l)
        -o      offset value to raise or lower around panels.  def: 0
        -d      Delay (time to stay on screen when after update)
                in seconds. default: 3
        -h      this help message


to compile, type 'make'.

to install, type 'make install'.

Andrew Rice <mail@andyrice.net>
