ixbiff(1)

ixbiff1

Notify user when mail arrives by blinking keyboard leds

Usage

ixbiff

Overview

ixbiff blinks the keyboard leds when new mail arrives. The keyboard leds used, depend on the daemon's configuration.

For obvious reasons only three mailboxes can be checked.

Currently ixbiff is Linux specific and requires root access.

ixbiff have support for both the standard UNIX mbox format and qmail's Maildir format.

Files

/etc/ixbiff.conf

System-wide configuration file.

Releases

Unchanged in 3 releases since Debian 3.0 (Woody).

  1. 3.0–4.0

Author

Written by Abraham vd Merwe <[email protected]>

From ixbiff 0.03d in Debian 4.0 (Etch). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.