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<sect2 id="applets-core-mailcheck">
<title>The Mail Check Applet</title>
<para>
The <application>mailcheck applet</application> is an applet which
sits in your panel and tells you when you have new email. To add
this applet to the panel, right-click on the panel and choose
<menuchoice>
<guimenu>Add applet</guimenu>
<guisubmenu>Network</guisubmenu>
<guimenuitem>Mailcheck</guimenuitem>
</menuchoice>
</para>
<figure id="mailcheck-applets-core-fig">
<title>Mail Check Applet</title>
<screenshot>
<screeninfo>Mail Check Applet</screeninfo>
<graphic format="png" fileref="figures/mailcheck-applet"
srccredit="Eric Baudais">
</graphic>
</screenshot>
</figure>
<sect3 id="mailcheck-usage">
<title> Usage</title>
<para>
You don't need to do anything in particular to run this applet.
Providing it is looking in the right place for your email, it
will run itself quite happily. The following options, however,
are available:
</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
Clicking <mousebutton>mouse button 1</mousebutton> does nothing
unless you have told it to start a program when you do this. You
do this with the properties box described <link
linkend="mailcheck-prefs">below</link>.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Holding down <mousebutton>mouse button 2</mousebutton> allows
you to drag the applet around the panel (and between panels).
option.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Clicking <mousebutton>mouse button 3</mousebutton> brings up
the typical <guimenu>applet menu</guimenu> which includes an
About box and a <link linkend="mailcheck-prefs">properties</link>
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect3>
<sect3 id="mailcheck-prefs">
<title>Preferences</title>
<para>
The mailcheck <interface>properties dialogue box</interface> is
divided into two sections, one for what the mail check applet
does, and one for where it checks for email.
</para>
<figure id="mailcheck-settings-mailcheck-fig">
<title>Properties dialog — Mail check tab</title>
<screenshot>
<screeninfo>Properties dialog - Mail check tab</screeninfo>
<graphic format="png" fileref="figures/mailcheck-properties-mailcheck"
srccredit="Eric Baudais">
</graphic>
</screenshot>
</figure>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term>Mail check options</term>
<listitem>
<para>
The mail check options have six sections:
</para>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term>Execute...before each update</term>
<listitem>
<para>
Sometimes you may want to run something such as
<application>fetchmail</application> before the applet
checks for new mail. To do this, check the checkbox and
fill in the program name in the space here.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>Execute...when new mail arrives</term>
<listitem>
<para>
Sometimes you may want other programs to run when new mail
arrives. It is common to tell the machine to play a noise
at you, for example. Checking this checkbox and filling in
the command (such as <command>mpg123
<replaceable>sillynoise.mpg</replaceable></command> or
<command>esdplay
<replaceable>sillynoise.wav</replaceable></command>) will
let this happen.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>Execute...when clicked</term>
<listitem>
<para>
By putting a program name (generally a mail-reader such as
<application>balsa</application> or <application>spruce</application>
here and clicking on the checkbox, you can set things up so that
when you click <mousebutton>button 1</mousebutton> on the
applet, that program will be automatically run.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>Check for mail every...</term>
<listitem>
<para>
You can adjust the range for checking whether mail has arrived
between 1440 minutes (once a day) to never. Setting it to never
is silly and will confuse it. The default value is every two
minutes.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>Play a sound when new mail arrives</term>
<listitem>
<para>
The sound played if you check this <guibutton>checkbox</guibutton>
is an alarm bell. It is contained in
<filename>$prefix/sound/events/mailcheck.soundlist</filename>;
if you want to change it to a different sound, alter that and
put the sound in <filename>$prefix/sounds/</filename>.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>Select animation</term>
<listitem>
<para>
By clicking on the <guilabel>box with the animation name</guilabel>,
you can get a list of different pictures which have different
animations when new email arrives.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
<figure id="mailcheck-settings-mailbox-fig">
<title>Properties dialog — Mailbox tab</title>
<screenshot>
<screeninfo>Properties dialog - Mailbox tab</screeninfo>
<graphic format="png" fileref="figures/mailcheck-properties-mailbox"
srccredit="Eric Baudais">
</graphic>
</screenshot>
</figure>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term>Mailbox options</term>
<listitem>
<para>
The mailbox options have four sections, some of which will be
greyed-out.
</para>
<para>
By clicking on the <guilabel>box with the mailbox location</guilabel>,
you can tell the mailcheck applet where to look for your incoming
email.
</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
When local mailspool or local maildir are selected as the location
for the mailbox, then you can fill in the details on which file
or directory the applet should check for new email. You can only
put one filename here. The section about mail servers will be
greyed out.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
When remote POP3 or remote IMAP are selected as the location for
the mailbox, then you can fill in the details on the mail server,
username and password. If the you don't supply the password, the
applet will ask for it when it first tries to check for mail.
The section about local filenames will be greyed out.
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</sect3>
<sect3 id="mailcheck-bugs">
<title> Known bugs and limitations</title>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
Setting something to be executed before each update can hang the
applet and the panel.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Sometimes the animation stops happening after prolonged use.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
If you use a mail filter such as <application>procmail</application>,
which sorts email into different folders, the applet won't check them
all for new email. It will only look at one file.
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect3>
<!-- ============= Authors ================================ -->
<sect3 id="mailcheck-authors">
<title>Authors</title>
<para>
<application>Mail Check</application> was written by
Miguel de Icaza (<email>miguel@gnu.org</email>),
Jacob Berkman (<email>jberkman@andrew.cmu.edu</email>),
Jaka Mocnik (<email>jaka.mocnik@kiss.uni-lj.si</email>) and
Lennart Poettering (<email>poettering@gmx.net</email>).
Please send all comments, suggestions, and bug
reports to the <ulink url="http://bugs.gnome.org/" type="http">GNOME
bug tracking database</ulink>. (Instructions for submitting bug
reports can be found <ulink
url="http://bugs.gnome.org/Reporting.html" type="http">
on-line</ulink>. If you are using
GNOME 1.1 or later, you can also use <application>Bug Report
Tool</application> (<command>bug-buddy</command>), available in the
<guisubmenu>Utilities</guisubmenu> submenu of <guimenu>Main
Menu</guimenu>, for submitting bug reports.
</para>
<para>
This manual was written by Telsa Gwynne
(<email>telsa@linuxchix.org</email>) and Eric Baudais
(<email>baudais@okstate.edu</email>). Please send all comments
and suggestions regarding this manual to the <ulink type="http"
url="http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gdp/">GNOME
Documentation Project</ulink> by sending an email to
<email>docs@gnome.org</email>. You can also submit comments
online by using the <ulink type="http"
url="http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gdp/doctable/">GNOME
Documentation Status Table</ulink>.
</para>
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</para>
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</sect3>
<!-- ============= Application License ============================= -->
<!--
<sect3 id="license">
<title>License</title>
<para>
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the <ulink type="help"
url="gnome-help:gpl"><citetitle>GNU General Public
License</citetitle></ulink> as published by the Free Software
Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option)
any later version.
</para>
<para>
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
<ulink type="help" url="gnome-help:gpl"><citetitle>GNU General
Public License</citetitle></ulink> for more details.
</para>
<para>
A copy of the <ulink type="help"
url="gnome-help:gpl"><citetitle>GNU General Public
License</citetitle></ulink> is included with the GNOME documentation. You
also may obtain a
copy of the <ulink type="help" url="gnome-help:gpl"><citetitle>GNU
General Public License</citetitle></ulink> from the Free Software
Foundation by visiting <ulink type="http"
url="http://www.fsf.org/">their Web site</ulink> or by writing to
<address>
Free Software Foundation, Inc.
<street>59 Temple Place</street> - Suite 330
<city>Boston</city>, <state>MA</state> <postcode>02111-1307</postcode>
<country>USA</country>
</address>
</para>
</sect3>
-->
</sect2>
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