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NAME
faces, seemail, vwhois - mailbox interface
SYNOPSIS
faces [ -ihc ] [ -m maildir ]
seemail
vwhois person ...
DESCRIPTION
The faces command monitors incoming mail and displays in its
window a representation of the user's mail box using a small
image for each message. The image is typically a portrait
of the sender. Which image to display is determined by two
directories /usr/$user/lib/face and /lib/face. Entries in
/usr/$user/lib/face take priority over those in /lib/face.
See face(6), for how these directories are organised.
If the user is running plumber(4), faces reacts to plumb
messages to the seemail port, typically from upas/fs, and is
thus notified of message additions and deletions.
Right-clicking on a message icon causes that message to be
`plumbed' to showmail. A typical plumb action will be to
display the message, such as by the rule
plumb start window mail -s $0
The acme(1) mail reader listens to the showmail port auto-
matically.
If the user is not running plumber, faces reads the log file
and right-clicking has no effect.
If arrows are visible, clicking on them will scroll the dis-
play. Middle-clicking on the arrows scrolls to the end.
Starting faces with the -i flag causes faces to read the
messages in /mail/fs/mbox — or the mailboxes specified with
the -m flag — upon startup.
The -m option directs faces to watch for messages arriving
in maildir instead of /mail/fs/mbox. Multiple -m flags may
be used to watch multiple mailboxes.
Starting faces with the -c flag allows the user to remove
faces with a click with button 1.
The -h flag causes a different, venerable behavior in which
the window displays the history of messages received rather
than the current state of the mail box. In particular,
faces are not removed from the screen when messages are
deleted. Also, in this mode clicking button 1 in the
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display will clear the window.
Seemail is an rc(1) script that invokes faces -h.
Vwhois tells faces to display the icons of the named
persons, without sending a message.
FILES
/mail/fs/mbox mail directory.
SOURCE
/sys/src/cmd/faces
/rc/bin/seemail
/rc/bin/vwhois
SEE ALSO
mail(1), marshal(1), nedmail(1), plumber(4), face(6),
plumb(6)
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