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<h1>Module: biff</h1>

Yet another incarnation of the popular biff.  biff watches a user
mail spool in /var/spool/mail or /var/mail for new messages, providing
a readout of the number of messages currently waiting in the spool.
Useful mainly for folks (like me, surprisingly) who have a local mail
delivery agent and something like Fetchmail grabbing mail over an ssh
connection in the background.<p>

<h2>Current platforms</h2>
All that use UNIX mailbox format<p>

<h2>Instances</h2>
single only

<h2>additional resources</h2>
none<p>

<h2>Resource defaults</h2>

Resource defaults explicitly altered from the global defaults by this
module:

<ul>
<li>label: mail
<li>litbackground: #cccccc
<li>order: 200
<li>scalelenadj: 100
<li>scalerefresh: 5000
<li>scalereturn: 0
<li>scalewidadj: 80
</ul>

<h2>Possible enhancements</h2>

biff does not call 'from'.  It *could*, but you'd need to spawn a
helper to run the from very infrequently and asynchronously.  On a
system like MIT's Athena, from can require minutes to return (and may
or may not exert load on the mailserver).  Using 'from' is more
portable, but will require some delicacy.  Wathing zephyr pop
notification is another possibility...<p>


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MGM will not get your whites whiter or your colors brighter.  It will,
however, sit there and look spiffy while sucking down a major
honking wad of RAM.<p>

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<a href="http://www.xiph.org/">Xiphophorus</a>.  These pages are
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