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What is NewMail?

NewMail is a simple application for minitoring incoming mails under Linux. It is similar to the old newmail and xbiff. It works under X11 and displays a fancy animation when new mail arrives. The animation is made up from separate GIF-files with names like :

Filename-XX.gif

Where XX is a running number starting from 00, 01, 02 and so on. This gives a maximum size of 100 frames for the animation. The GIFs should be of the same size, but this is not important.

Downloading

Get the binary rpm of the package.
Get the source rpm of the package.
Get the hzipped tar-file. of the package.

Installation

Use the RPM-files if possible, and follow normal installation or rebuilding procedures. For the tar-file you first need to download the package and unpack it into a nice directory (for instance /usr/local/srs) with the command :

% tar zvfx NewMail-1.0.tar.gz

This will create a subdirectory NewMail-1.0. Enter the directory :

% cd NewMail-1.0

Compiling the application should normally be just a matter of typing :

% make
% make install

as 'root'. This makes the application and installs it under /usr/local. If it however does not compile properly you might need to check the makefile 'src/Makefile' for compiler flags and utilities used by the installation process. This file also contains the paths for the install, modify is you want to install in another location. Note that the application still defaults to /usr/local/lib/NewMail/ for the default animation-frames 'Animation-xx.gif'.

Revision information : $Id: NewMail.html,v 1.3 1998/08/10 09:28:27 chakie Exp $

Jan 'Chakie' Ekholm - chakie@infa.abo.fi