URL: http://www.fiction.net/blong/programs/gbuffy/ Author: Brandon Long Email: blong@fiction.net Current Version: 0.20 Date: 01-11-1999 GBuffy GBuffy is a GTK+ multiple mailbox "biff" program. It is conceptually based on XBuffy by Bill Pemberton, but is a complete rewrite from scratch. GBuffy will poll multiple mailboxes for new mail. It will list the number of new messages in each mailbox you configure. It will also highlight the mailboxes which have new mail. Pressing the left mouse button on a mailbox with new mail will display the Sender and Subject of each new message. Additionally, GBuffy will display the X-Face header for messages which have them. Pressing the middle mouse button on a mailbox will launch the configured command, generally a command to read the mailbox with your favorite mailreader. Pressing the right mouse button will bring up the configure menu. GBuffy is currently capable of watching MBOX, MMDF, Maildir and MH Folders. This version also supports IMAP4rev1 and NNTP with XOVER. Support for an external program for notification is planned. The main advantages of GBuffy over XBuffy are: * Uses the GTK+ Toolkit * Supports the X-Face: header * Easy User Configuration * Configuration data stored using GNUStep libPropList * RFC2047 decoding of headers (that's non US-ASCII character set support) * Support for Maildir and MH mailboxes * Support for IMAP mailboxes Status Current Version: 0.2.1 Currently, GBuffy is ALPHA code. It is fairly stable, but may contain memory leaks, may suddenly die if you do something I haven't. Not all features are yet implemented, and it may not be the easiest to compile yet. In the future, it may become a GNOME application, which should be pretty simple given that it already uses GTK+ and libPropList. ToDo: * Support images for each mailbox instead of text * Support -geometry command line argument Download Only available as Source. Requires: * GTK+ 1.1.11 or later * libPropList 7.3 or later (available with WindowMaker) or http://www.fiction.net/blong/programs/gbuffy/libPropList-0.8.1.tar.gz * libcompface for decoding X-Face headers. Included. Installation To compile, run ./configure in this directory. It should work, mostly. You may need to modify the resulting makefile to find gtk-config and/or the libPropList library, as these are autodetected yet. The binary, gbuffy, should be able to be installed anywhere. Just run gbuffy to start the application. The first time, you will get a message about having no defaults. Click the right mouse button in the resulting window, and configure your mailboxes and save. Note that GBuffy will save your defaults in ~/GNUStep/Defaults if it exists, or in ~/.gbuffyrc otherwise. You shouldn't hand edit this file. There is a simple perl script included in this distribution which you can use to convert a XBuffy boxfile to a GBuffy configuration file. For instance, you could do: ./convert.pl < ~/.xbuffy > ~/GNUStep/Defaults/GBuffy Then again, this may not work As of GTK+ 1.1.6, GTK+ will parse /etc/gtkrc and ~/.gtkrc To The GBuffy distribution comes with an example gtkrc, gtkrc.example, which was used to create the screenshots on the GBuffy homepage. NOTE: Currently, GBuffy requires IMAP4rev1 compatible IMAP servers, and for NNTP, it requires the server support XOVER.
