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Programming Internet Email
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Programming Internet Email

by David Wood
August 1999
Intermediate to advanced
378 pages
11h 44m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Extending JBiff

This short script can be extended to the point that it is a handy utility, especially for those people who have multiple mail accounts on various machines. Here are a few ideas:

  • Take input from a configuration file, perhaps in each users home directory. The configuration can include information for multiple mail accounts on different machines and information for multiple mailboxes within each account.

  • A GUI can be created, which is more visually appealing and which one would be happy to have constantly on a desktop—perhaps an icon which indicates whether new mail is present on any of the watched mailboxes coupled with additional information on a mouse-over event.

  • A popup window on a mouse-over event can show who the messages are from and the subject lines.

  • Third-party extensions to Sun’s reference implementation could be used in order to add support for POP or local mailboxes.

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