dottedmag / wobiff

= wobiff =

wobiff is the mail notification tool which monitors maildir++ in realtime.

== Motivation ==

Why wobiff was written? Other biffs are asynchronous: they poll maildir (or
other mail storage) periodically and then report the results. This creates the
race between mail arrival and detection of mail arrival by biff.

Mail-addicted person (such as me) may exploit this race by periodical clicking
'get new mail' in the mail client, which hurts productivity badly (imagine you
check the mail, then look at Jabber client, then check the RSS reader, then
check the mail...).

wobiff monitors maildir and reflects it's actual state, solving the race
condition traditional biffs suffer from.

== Features ==

wobiff uses inotify(7), hence it always tells the truth about the presence of
unread mail.

wobiff has no tray icon support. Instead it allows you to implement any
indication mechanism instead (example for wmii-3.5 is included).

== Development Information ==

git repository, bugtracker: http://github.com/dottedmag/wobiff/

== License ==

GPLv2+

== Author ==

Mikhail Gusarov

== requirements ==

* python >= 2.4
* pyinotify >= 0.7
* linux >= 2.6.13 (for inotify(7))