Welcome to wobiff project
wobiff is the mail notification tool which monitors maildir++ in realtime.
Motivation
Why wobiff was written? Because other biffs are asynchronous: they poll maildir periodically and then report the results. This creates the race between mail arrival and detection of mail arrival by biff.
Mail-addicted person (such as me) may exploit this race by periodical clicking 'get new mail' in the mail client, which hurts productivity badly (imagine you check the mail, then look at Jabber client, then check the RSS reader, then check the mail...).
wobiff monitors maildir and reflects it's actual state, solving the race condition traditional biffs suffer from.
Features
- wobiff uses inotify(7), hence it always tells the truth about the presence of unread mail.
- wobiff has no tray icon support. Instead it allows you to make any indication mechanism instead (example for wmii-3.5 is included).
Development Information
- Mercurial repository: hg clone http://hg.dottedmag.net/wobiff/ (Web interface).
- mailing list
- Open source, GPL2.
