Gnubiff

Jul 20, 2023

Mail notification program for Gnome

gnubiff is a mail notification program that checks for mail, displays headers when new mail has arrived and allow to read first lines of new mails.

It relies on the GNOME and GTK libraries but can be compiled and used with or without GNOME support. Supported protocols are pop3, apop, imap4, mh, qmail and mailfile.

Furthermore, gnubiff is fully configurable with a lot of options like polltime, poptime, sounds, mail reader, mailbox names, etc. and can also filter spam.



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