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