mail/xlbiff 3.0p4 OpenBSD

Xlbiff lets you preview new mail to decide if you want to read it immediately. Regular xbiff lets you know when you have mail but not what it is.

Xlbiff lurks in the background, monitoring your mailbox file. When something shows up there, it invokes the scanCommand (MH's scan by default), and displays the output in a window. If more mail comes in, it scans again and resizes accordingly.

If you're a Berkeley mail person, you can set scanCommand to:

echo x \| mail \| grep "^.\[NU\]"

Or use the ``frm'' utility that is part of the Elm port as your scanCommand. A similar utility is the ``fromwho'' package, posted to comp.sources.unix volume 25.

-- David ([email protected])