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  1. .TH FACES 1
  2. .SH NAME
  3. faces, seemail, vwhois \- mailbox interface
  4. .SH SYNOPSIS
  5. .B faces
  6. [
  7. .B -ih
  8. ] [
  9. .B -m
  10. .I maildir
  11. ]
  12. .br
  13. .B seemail
  14. .br
  15. .B vwhois
  16. .I person
  17. \&...
  18. .SH DESCRIPTION
  19. The
  20. .I faces
  21. command monitors incoming mail and
  22. displays in its window a representation of the user's mail box
  23. using a small image for each message.
  24. The image is typically a portrait of the sender.
  25. .PP
  26. If the user is running
  27. .IR plumber (4),
  28. .I faces
  29. reacts to plumb messages to the
  30. .B seemail
  31. port,
  32. typically from
  33. .BR upas/fs ,
  34. and is thus notified of message additions and deletions.
  35. .PP
  36. Right-clicking on a message icon causes that message to be `plumbed' to
  37. .BR showmail .
  38. A typical plumb action will be to display the message, such as by
  39. the rule
  40. .EX
  41. plumb start window mail -s $0
  42. .EE
  43. The
  44. .IR acme (1)
  45. mail reader listens to the
  46. .B showmail
  47. port automatically.
  48. .PP
  49. If the user is not running
  50. .IR plumber ,
  51. .I faces
  52. reads the log file
  53. .F /sys/log/mail
  54. and right-clicking has no effect.
  55. .PP
  56. If arrows are visible, clicking on them will scroll the display.
  57. Middle-clicking on the arrows scrolls to the end.
  58. .PP
  59. Starting
  60. .B faces
  61. with the
  62. .B -i
  63. flag causes
  64. .B faces
  65. to read the messages in
  66. .B /mail/fs/mbox
  67. upon startup.
  68. .PP
  69. The
  70. .B -m
  71. option directs
  72. .I faces
  73. to watch for messages arriving in
  74. .I maildir
  75. as well as in
  76. .BR /mail/fs/mbox .
  77. However, only
  78. .BR /mail/fs/mbox
  79. is used to load the initial set of faces.
  80. .PP
  81. The
  82. .B -h
  83. flag causes a different, venerable behavior in which
  84. the window displays the history of messages received
  85. rather than the current state of the mail box.
  86. In particular, faces are not removed from the screen when messages are deleted.
  87. Also, in this mode clicking button 1 in the display will clear the window.
  88. .PP
  89. .I Seemail
  90. is an
  91. .IR rc (1)
  92. script that invokes
  93. .B faces
  94. .BR -h .
  95. .PP
  96. .I Vwhois
  97. tells
  98. .I faces
  99. to display the icons of the named
  100. .IR persons ,
  101. without sending a message.
  102. .SH FILES
  103. .BR /mail/fs/mbox " mail directory.
  104. .SH "SEE ALSO"
  105. .IR mail (1),
  106. .IR marshal (1),
  107. .IR nedmail (1),
  108. .IR plumber (4),
  109. .IR face (6),
  110. .IR plumb (6)