FACES(1)FACES(1)
NAME
faces, seemail, vwhois – mailbox interface
SYNOPSIS
faces
[
-ih
] [
-m
maildir
]
seemail
vwhois
person
...
DESCRIPTION
The
faces
command monitors incoming mail and
displays in its window a representation of the user’s mail box
using a small image for each message.
The image is typically a portrait of the sender. Which image to
display is determined by two directories /usr/$user/lib/face
and /lib/face. Entries in /usr/$user/lib/face take priority over
those in /lib/face. See
face(6),
for how these directories are organised.
If the user is running
plumber(4),
faces
reacts to plumb messages to the
seemail
port,
typically from
upas/fs,
and is thus notified of message additions and deletions.
Right-clicking on a message icon causes that message to be ‘plumbed’ to
showmail.
A typical plumb action will be to display the message, such as by
the rule
plumb start window mail -s $0
The
acme(1)
mail reader listens to the
showmail
port automatically.
If the user is not running
plumber,
faces
reads the log file
unhandled troff command .F
and right-clicking has no effect.
If arrows are visible, clicking on them will scroll the display.
Middle-clicking on the arrows scrolls to the end.
Starting
faces
with the
-i
flag causes
faces
to read the messages in
/mail/fs/mbox
— or the mailboxes specified with the
-m
flag —
upon startup.
The
-m
option directs
faces
to watch for messages arriving in
maildir
instead of
/mail/fs/mbox.
Multiple
-m
flags may be used to watch multiple mailboxes.
The
-h
flag causes a different, venerable behavior in which
the window displays the history of messages received
rather than the current state of the mail box.
In particular, faces are not removed from the screen when messages are deleted.
Also, in this mode clicking button 1 in the display will clear the window.
Seemail
is an
rc(1)
script that invokes
faces
-h.
Vwhois
tells
faces
to display the icons of the named
persons,
without sending a message.
FILES
/mail/fs/mbox mail directory.
SOURCE
/sys/src/cmd/faces
/rc/bin/seemail
/rc/bin/vwhois
SEE ALSO
mail(1),
marshal(1),
nedmail(1),
plumber(4),
face(6),
plumb(6)