Checkmail @VERSION@
- (c) 2005--2008 Martin Mares <mj@ucw.cz>
+ (c) 2005--2010 Martin Mares <mj@ucw.cz>
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Checkmail is nothing more than a smart textual menu allowing easy browsing
through a set of mailboxes, displayed together with numbers of all messages
-and new messages.
+and new messages. It is also able to notify the user that a new mail has
+arrived by means of beeps, keyboard LEDs and on-screen display.
-It can be freely used and distributed according to the terms of the GNU General
-Public License version 2, as published by the Free Software Foundation.
+Checkmail can be freely used and distributed according to the terms of the GNU
+General Public License version 2, as published by the Free Software Foundation.
-Build requirements: libncurses, locales and iconv and a decent C99 compiler
-(preferably GCC). For full UTF-8 support libncursesw is necessary, options
-for controlling XKB leds need libX11. See Makefile for several build-time
-switches.
+Build requirements: libncurses, locales and iconv, and a decent C99 compiler
+(preferably GCC). For full UTF-8 support, libncursesw is necessary. Options
+for controlling XKB leds need libX11, on-screen display needs libX11 and OSDD.
+See Makefile for several build-time switches.
Usage:
see `cm --help'
0...9 sets minimum priority of mailboxes to show
(0=show all)
b, B enable/disable beeping
+ d, D enable/disable on-screen display
+ / start incremental search mode
<hotkey> activate a specific mailbox and invoke mutt
on it (hotkeys are defined as mailbox options
and they override the default key bindings)