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+<?xml version="1.0" ?>
+<!DOCTYPE book PUBLIC "-//KDE//DTD DocBook XML V4.1-Based Variant V1.0//EN" "dtd/kdex.dtd" [
+ <!ENTITY kbiff "<application>kbiff</application>">
+]>
+
+<book id="kbiff" lang="en">
+<bookinfo>
+<title>The KBiff Handbook</title>
+<authorgroup>
+<author>
+<firstname>Kurt</firstname>
+<surname>Granroth</surname>
+<affiliation>
+<address><email>[email protected]</email></address>
+</affiliation>
+</author>
+</authorgroup>
+<date></date>
+<releaseinfo></releaseinfo>
+<abstract>
+<para>KBiff is a KDE aware mail notification utility. It supports MBOX (Unix
+ style), Maildir (Qmail), MH, POP3(S), IMAP4(S), and NNTP mailboxes.</para>
+</abstract>
+<keywordset>
+<keyword>KDE</keyword>
+<keyword>KBiff</keyword>
+<keyword>mailboxes</keyword>
+<keyword>incoming mail</keyword>
+</keywordset>
+</bookinfo>
+
+<chapter id="introduction">
+<title>Introduction</title>
+
+<sect1 id="features">
+<title>Features</title>
+
+<para>KBiff is a mail notification utility for the KDE project. It has several
+advantages over much of its competition:
+<itemizedlist>
+<listitem>
+<para><emphasis>Pure GUI configuration</emphasis>. No more command line parameters to remember (well,
+one optional one to make things easier for some people) or strange config files.
+All settings for KBiff can be done from one setup dialog.</para>
+</listitem>
+<listitem>
+<para><emphasis>Session Management</emphasis>. KBiff starts up with the same configuration you left
+it with.</para>
+</listitem>
+<listitem>
+<para><emphasis>Panel Docking</emphasis>. KBiff can be docked into the panel very easily. Handy when
+you are monitoring several mailboxes and don't have room anywhere else.</para>
+</listitem>
+<listitem>
+<para><emphasis>Animated GIFs</emphasis>. You can use animated GIFs as your icons.</para>
+</listitem>
+<listitem>
+<para><emphasis>Sounds</emphasis>. KBiff has an option to play .wav files when new mail arrives.</para>
+</listitem>
+<listitem>
+<para><emphasis>POP3(+SSL), IMAP4(+SSL), NNTP, Maildir, MBOX, MH</emphasis>. KBiff supports all major mailbox formats!</para>
+</listitem>
+<listitem>
+<para><emphasis>Multiple Mailbox</emphasis>. KBiff can monitor several mailboxes with one instance.</para>
+</listitem>
+<listitem>
+<para><emphasis>Secure Authentication</emphasis>. KBiff can authenticate using APOP or CRAM-MD5 if the POP3 or IMAP4 server supports it.
+</para>
+</listitem>
+<listitem>
+<para><emphasis>Others</emphasis>. KBiff has scads of other options.</para>
+</listitem>
+</itemizedlist>
+</para>
+
+<para>Kurt Granroth</para>
+
+<para><ulink url="mailto:[email protected]">&lt;[email protected]&gt;</ulink></para>
+</sect1>
+</chapter>
+
+<chapter id="installation">
+<title>Installation</title>
+
+<sect1 id="howtoobtainkbiff">
+<title>How to obtain KBiff</title>
+
+<para>The most current release version in both source and binary formats can
+always be found at the KBiff homepage. This is at
+<ulink url="http://kbiff.granroth.org">http://kbiff.granroth.org</ulink></para>
+</sect1>
+
+<sect1 id="requirements">
+<title>Requirements</title>
+
+<para>In order to successfully compile KBiff, you need at least the 2.0 version
+of KDE. All required libraries can be found starting at the
+<ulink url="http://www.kde.org">KDE</ulink> website.</para>
+
+<para>A note on the minimum KDE version: while KBiff should compile
+with KDE2, this hasn't been verified or tested in years. The
+effective minimum version is KDE3.</para>
+</sect1>
+
+<sect1 id="compilationandinstallation">
+<title>Compilation and Installation</title>
+
+<para>Compiling KBiff is very easy. The following should do it:
+<programlisting>&percnt; ./configure
+&percnt; make
+&percnt; make install</programlisting>
+</para>
+
+<para>That should do it! Should you run into any problems, please report them
+to the <ulink url="mailto:[email protected]">author</ulink></para>
+</sect1>
+</chapter>
+
+<chapter id="usingkbiff">
+<title>Using KBiff</title>
+
+<para>Almost every feature of KBiff can be configured from the Setup dialog.
+What few command line parameters KBiff has are mostly for convenience -- some
+options just make more sense on the command line.</para>
+
+<sect1 id="theprofile">
+<title>The "profile"</title>
+
+<para>KBiff revolves around something called a "profile" A profile is simply
+a container for one or mailboxes that KBiff will monitor. For instance, there
+will always be one default profile called "Inbox" (or something else if you
+rename it). This profile will contain one mailbox, usually something like "/var/mail/username".
+It could just as well hold several mailboxes, though. Each instance of KBiff
+(that is, each visible icon) corresponds to one profile.</para>
+</sect1>
+
+<sect1 id="commandlineparameters">
+<title>Command Line Parameters</title>
+
+<para>KBiff supports three command line parameters. They are: <emphasis>profile</emphasis>, <emphasis>debug</emphasis>,
+and <emphasis>secure</emphasis>.
+<programlisting>-profile &lt;profile_name&gt; Bypass the Setup dialog and start KBiff directly in the
+ given profile. e.g., 'kbiff -profile Inbox'
+-debug Turns on verbose debugging. Use this only if you are
+ having problems with KBiff
+-secure Disables the setup dialog. Useful when you want KBiff
+ displayed but don't want others to modify it.</programlisting>
+</para>
+</sect1>
+</chapter>
+
+<chapter id="thesetupdialog">
+<title>The Setup Dialog</title>
+
+<para>The setup dialog handles all configuration items for KBiff. As a result,
+there is no need for command line parameters in nearly all cases.</para>
+
+<sect1 id="profilename">
+<title>Profile Name</title>
+
+<para>The top part of the dialog consists of a drop down list and three buttons.
+The drop down list contains the names of all the "profiles." A profile is a
+set of configuration settings for one mailbox under one name. The three
+buttons are New, Rename, and Delete. The buttons work on the profiles,
+only. They do not touch the actual mailbox files. When KBiff is started for
+the first time, there will be one profile automatically created. This is
+the Inbox profile which monitors the system mailbox.</para>
+</sect1>
+
+<sect1 id="preferencetabs">
+<title>Preference Tabs</title>
+
+<para>There are four preference tabs. These are full of options that apply to the
+current profile. The current profile is the one that is currently displayed
+in the drop down list. There are no global settings.</para>
+
+<sect2 id="generalpreferences">
+<title>General Preferences</title>
+
+<para>The general preferences for each profile are contained in this tab. There
+are five fields here:</para>
+
+<sect3 id="poll">
+<title>Poll</title>
+
+<para>This setting controls how much time KBiff will wait until it checks the
+mailbox again. The time is in seconds. The default is 60 seconds (one
+minute).</para>
+
+<para>To choose a time other than the default, here, it is a good idea to analyze
+the frequency in which your mail arrives. If, for instance, you have
+<literal>fetchmail</literal> downloading new mail every 5 minutes, then it doesn't make sense
+to set the time for less than that. On the other hand, if you are using the
+POP3 or IMAP4 feature of KBiff, you should probably use a higher interval. Setting
+it less than 60 might give you unexpected results if your network
+connection isn't very fast.</para>
+</sect3>
+
+<sect3 id="mailclient">
+<title>Mail client</title>
+
+<para>This field specifies what command will run when KBiff is left-clicked.
+While this is typically a mail client, it does not have to be. It can be
+any command that can be run with its own X window. In other words, putting
+<literal>elm</literal> in this field will not work. Putting <literal>konsole -e elm</literal> would.
+The default is <literal>kmail -check</literal></para>
+</sect3>
+
+<sect3 id="dockinpanel">
+<title>Dock in panel</title>
+
+<para>This controls whether or not KBiff will start docked into the panel or not
+when the user exits the setup dialog. Note that it is still possible to
+switch between docked and undocked regardless of this option. This only
+controls the initial state. This is checked by default.</para>
+</sect3>
+
+<sect3 id="enablesessionmanagement">
+<title>Enable session management</title>
+
+<para>This controls whether or not KDE session management is enabled. This should
+be turned off only in rare cases. The most common case where session
+management is disabled is when a user is running KDE under the same account
+on several different computers at the same time. In this case, it would
+probably be desirable to turn off session management and use the <literal>-profile</literal>
+command line option instead.</para>
+
+<para>In all other cases, session management should probably be left on.</para>
+</sect3>
+
+<sect3 id="icons">
+<title>Icons</title>
+
+<para>KBiff uses three icons to represent the three states: No Mail, Old Mail,
+and New Mail. The icons shown are the "large" icons. To select new ones,
+click on the buttons and a icon loader dialog will pop up. Note that even
+though KBiff supports animated GIFs, they will not appear animated here.</para>
+</sect3>
+</sect2>
+
+<sect2 id="newmailpreferences">
+<title>New Mail Preferences</title>
+
+<para>This tab groups together the options that control what happen when new mail
+arrives.</para>
+
+<sect3 id="runcommand">
+<title>Run Command</title>
+
+<para>This is a shell command that will be executed when new mail arrives. A
+typical example of this would be play newmail.au. This would cause the file
+newmail.au to be played whenever new mail arrives. By default, this is
+turned off.</para>
+</sect3>
+
+<sect3 id="playsound">
+<title>Play Sound</title>
+
+<para>This specifies a sound to play when new mail arrives. As of this version,
+it will only play .wav files. Simply specify the path to the file to have
+it played. By default, this is turned off.</para>
+</sect3>
+
+<sect3 id="systembeep">
+<title>System Beep</title>
+
+<para>Enabling this will cause KBiff to beep whenever new mail arrives. This is
+probably the least intrusive, yet still active, method of alerting the user
+that new mail as arrived. By default, this is on.</para>
+</sect3>
+
+<sect3 id="notify">
+<title>Notify</title>
+
+<para>Enabling this will cause KBiff to popup a window when new mail arrives. The
+"notify" message box will list both the mailbox in question and the number of
+new mails. This option is not recommended on mailboxes that receive lots of
+mail.</para>
+</sect3>
+
+<sect3 id="floatingstatus">
+<title>Floating Status</title>
+
+<para>If this is enabled, KBiff will popup a small box listing all mailboxes
+with their newmail count whenever you the mouse is over the icon (after
+a one second delay). The effect is similar to that of a tooltip... only
+better. This isn't technically a new mail feature... but it doesn't fit
+easily anywhere else!</para>
+</sect3>
+</sect2>
+
+<sect2 id="mailboxpreferences">
+<title>Mailbox Preferences</title>
+
+<para>This groups together the options controlling the physical mailboxs themself.</para>
+
+<para>All options on this tab are PER mailbox. So if you have three mailboxes in
+this profile, each mailbox will have its own settings on this tab. However,
+all settings in the other tabs apply profile-wide. This means that if you
+have the Notify option checking the the New Mail tab, then KBiff will notify
+you that new mail has arrived in all of the mailboxes in this profile.</para>
+
+<sect3 id="mailboxlist">
+<title>Mailbox list</title>
+
+<para>The listbox on the left of the tab contains the list of mailboxes that the
+current profile will monitor. In most cases, there will be only one (the
+"Default" mailbox). However, you may have as many mailboxes per profile as
+you wish.</para>
+
+<para>There are two buttons below the mailbox list. The button with the mailbox on
+it will create a new mailbox. The button with the cross will delete a
+mailbox. If you wish to rename a mailbox, you must delete the old one and
+create a new one with identical properties.</para>
+</sect3>
+
+<sect3 id="protocol">
+<title>Protocol</title>
+
+<para>This determines the protocol for the currently selected mailbox. There are 4
+(and a half) protocols - mbox (Unix style), maildir (Qmail), POP3, and IMAP4.
+The 'file' protocol can be used to monitor any local file as it uses only
+the last read and last modified times to determine the state.</para>
+</sect3>
+
+<sect3 id="mailbox">
+<title>Mailbox</title>
+
+<para>This field will not be active with the POP3 protocol. In all other cases, put
+the path to your mailbox here. In the case of mbox, this will be a file. With
+maildir, this will be a directory. It is a folder with IMAP4 (almost
+always called 'INBOX' or 'inbox' for your main mail folder).</para>
+</sect3>
+
+<sect3 id="server">
+<title>Server</title>
+
+<para>This is active only for the IMAP4 and POP3 protocols.</para>
+</sect3>
+
+<sect3 id="user">
+<title>User</title>
+
+<para>This is active only for the IMAP4 and POP3 protocols.</para>
+
+</sect3>
+
+<sect3 id="password">
+<title>Password</title>
+
+<para>This is active only for the IMAP4 and POP3 protocols.</para>
+
+</sect3>
+
+<sect3 id="storepassword">
+<title>Store Password</title>
+
+<para>This will save the password between sessions.</para>
+
+<para>KBiff does not encrypt the password when it is saved! It will scramble it a
+little, but anybody with the source code (or a little patience) could
+unscramble it in an instant. If you are on an insecure network, it is
+strongly recommended that the store password option be turned off</para>
+</sect3>
+
+<sect3 id="advanced">
+<title>Advanced</title>
+
+<para>This will popup a dialog containing advanced features.</para>
+
+<sect4 id="mailboxurl">
+<title>Mailbox URL</title>
+
+<para>KBiff handles mailboxes internally as a URL. If you know what you are doing,
+you can directly modify the URL here. Modifying this is discouraged unless
+you are familiar with the code,</para>
+</sect4>
+
+<sect4 id="port">
+<title>Port</title>
+
+<para>Set this to whatever port your server is at. By default, it will be 110 for
+POP3 and 143 for IMAP4</para>
+</sect4>
+
+<sect4 id="preauth">
+<title>PREAUTH</title>
+
+<para>If you don't know what this means, you probably don't need to use it.
+Basically, it will start checking for new mail in IMAP4 without logging in.</para>
+</sect4>
+
+<sect4 id="keepalive">
+<title>Keep Alive</title>
+
+<para>When checked in POP3 or IMAP4 mode, this will keep the connection "alive".
+That is, KBiff will login once and stay logged in. This is not recommended if
+your POP3 or IMAP4 server uses locks. If locks are in place and KBiff does
+not log out then your mail client will not be able to access your account.</para>
+</sect4>
+</sect3>
+</sect2>
+
+<sect2 id="about">
+<title>About</title>
+
+<para>This tab has information about KBiff.</para>
+
+<sect3 id="aboutkbiff">
+<title>About KBiff</title>
+
+<para>This contains information about which version of KBiff is being used. It
+also has contact information about the author.</para>
+
+<para>Note that the email address is a hyperlink. Clicking on it is supposed to
+pop up your mail client in order to send mail to the author. Unfortunately,
+there is no automated way of doing this in KBiff at the present time. There
+is some code here, though. To send email using this hyperlink, KBiff looks
+for the environment variable <literal>MAILER</literal>. If it finds it, it will use the
+contents of this variable as the email program to use.</para>
+
+<para>For example, if <literal>MAILER</literal> is set like so:
+<literal> % setenv MAILER "konsole -e mutt"</literal>
+then KBiff will use <literal>konsole -e mutt</literal> as the default mail client, here.</para>
+</sect3>
+</sect2>
+</sect1>
+</chapter>
+
+<chapter id="thepopupmenu">
+<title>The Popup Menu</title>
+
+<para>The popup menu is activated whenever the right mouse button is clicked
+in the KBiff icon area.</para>
+
+<sect1 id="undock">
+<title>(Un)Dock</title>
+
+<para>This docks or undocks KBiff from the panel. This option will only work
+in KDE complient window managers like KWin. The default state is determined
+by the setup dialog.</para>
+</sect1>
+
+<sect1 id="setup">
+<title>Setup</title>
+
+<para>This will activate the setup dialog. See the Setup Dialog section for more details.</para>
+</sect1>
+
+<sect1 id="help">
+<title>Help</title>
+
+<para>This activates the online help (this).</para>
+</sect1>
+
+<sect1 id="checkmailnow">
+<title>Check Mail Now</title>
+
+<para>This forces KBiff to check for new mail right now, regardless of the poll
+time. This will check all mailboxes in a profile.</para>
+</sect1>
+
+<sect1 id="readmailnow">
+<title>Read Mail Now</title>
+
+<para>This will force KBiff to act like all mailboxes in the current profile
+are "old." This makes most sense when you have new mail on a remote server
+(pop3 or imap4) and don't feel like downloading it right then.</para>
+</sect1>
+
+<sect1 id="stopstart">
+<title>Stop/Start</title>
+
+<para>This will either stop or start KBiff.</para>
+</sect1>
+</chapter>
+
+<chapter id="questionsanswersandtips">
+<title>Questions, Answers, and Tips</title>
+
+<sect1 id="arethereotherkde-awarebiffutilities">
+<title>Are there other KDE-aware "biff" utilities?</title>
+
+<para>Yes. There are at least three that I know of. Each "biff" has its own strengths.
+<emphasis>KOrn</emphasis> was the original. It's main strength is the ability to monitor multiple
+mailboxes with one instance and effectively show the number of messages in
+each. If you have many mailboxes and don't care for the cutesy icons, then
+KOrn is probably a better choice than KBiff. Another "biff" is <emphasis>KNewMail</emphasis>.
+KNewMail attempts to emulate the Windows utility NewMail. It checks for POP3
+mail and displays the subject line for each message. I don't know if
+this is still an viable project, though, since it doesn't look like
+it's been updated since 2003.
+
+The final (and most common) mail monitor is the one that ships with
+KMail. Its major advantages are all related to the fact that it's
+integrated with KMail itself. KBiff is more flexible, though, and
+works with mailers other than KMail.</para>
+</sect1>
+
+<sect1 id="whatisthedifferencebetweenaprofileandamailbo">
+<title>What is the difference between a "profile" and a "mailbox" again?</title>
+
+<para>A "profile" is a group of one or more mailboxes that one instance of
+KBiff will monitor. And example of a profile is "Inbox". A "mailbox" is
+a physical entity that can be monitored by KBiff. An example of a mailbox is
+"/var/mail/username".</para>
+</sect1>
+
+<sect1 id="howdoiusemyownpixmaps">
+<title>How do I use my own pixmaps?</title>
+
+<para>Short answer: select them using the setup dialog.
+Longer answer: KBiff
+searches for its icons in the standard KDE icon path. Currently, this is
+<programlisting>tdedir()/share/apps/kbiff/toolbar
+tdedir()/share/toolbar
+tdedir()/share/icons
+tdedir()/share/apps/kbiff/pics
+&dollar;HOME/.kde/share/apps/kbiff/toolbar
+&dollar;HOME/.kde/share/toolbar
+&dollar;HOME/.kde/share/icons
+&dollar;HOME/.kde/share/apps/kbiff/pics</programlisting>
+</para>
+
+<para>Where "tdedir()" is usally "/opt/kde" and &dollar;HOME is your home
+directory. If you put your pixmaps in any of these directories (the last one
+listed is recommended), then KBiff should have no problems finding and using
+them.</para>
+
+<para>If you plan on docking KBiff, you should have a 22x22 (or smaller) version
+of your pixmap. The name of the small pixmap should be the name of the larger
+pixmap preceded by "mini-". So if you want to use the default "oldmail.xpm"
+pixmap for old mail but want to use your own "mycoolpixmap.xpm" smaller pixmap
+when it's docked, you should rename your pixmap to "mini-oldmail.xpm" If
+you do not do this, KBiff will use the large version even in the panel.</para>
+
+<para>Note that KBiff determines its size by the old mail pixmap. So if your
+pixmap for old mail is 100x100, but all the other ones are 32x32... well, KBiff
+will look very strange every time new mail arrives.</para>
+</sect1>
+
+<sect1 id="howdoiuseelmormuttorpinewithkbiff">
+<title>How do I use elm (or mutt or PINE) with KBiff?</title>
+
+<para>You tried putting "elm" into the Mail Client edit box, didn't you? Whoops!
+'elm', 'mutt', and 'PINE' all need a terminal to run in and KBiff does not
+supply one. The author used to use the following as his Mail Client:
+<literal>konsole -caption Mail -e mutt &amp;</literal></para>
+
+<para>If you use a graphical email client such as KMail or Thunderbird, then you
+simply need to put the name of the client in the edit box. No terminal is necessary.</para>
+</sect1>
+
+<sect1 id="whywontkbiffplaymynewmailaufile">
+<title>Why won't KBiff play my newmail.au file?</title>
+
+<para>KBiff uses the KAudio class to play sounds when new mail arrives. Currently,
+this class only supports .wav files. If you wish to play an .au file when new
+mail arrives, try getting the SOX package and put 'play newmail.au' (or just
+'cat newmail.au &gt; /dev/audio') in the Run Command option.</para>
+</sect1>
+
+<sect1 id="doeskbiffworkwithoutsessionmanagement">
+<title>Does KBiff work without session management?</title>
+
+<para>Yes. Session management is on by default, but you can turn it off in the
+setup dialog. You can still have KBiff start up when KDE starts up by putting
+KBiff into your Autostart folder with the '-profile' option.</para>
+</sect1>
+
+<sect1 id="clickingonyouremailaddressinaboutdoesnothing">
+<title>Clicking on your email address in About does nothing!</title>
+
+<para>It would be nice to pass the 'mailto:[email protected]' URL to kfm to process
+it.. unfortunately, this is not implemented yet. I did code in some support,
+though. Just set an environment variable MAILER to whatever your mailer is
+and the link should work.
+<programlisting>e.g.
+&percnt; setenv MAILER konsole -e mutt</programlisting>
+</para>
+
+<para>Note that this has the pleasant side effect that 'mailto:' links in the
+regular kfm will also use your mailer.</para>
+</sect1>
+
+<sect1 id="wheniusekbifftomonitormymailboxallotherbiffu">
+<title>When I use KBiff to monitor my mailbox, all other 'biff' utilities stop
+ working. What's up?</title>
+
+<para>This is a result of the new message counting code in KBiff. In order for
+KBiff to know how many new messages are in an mbox mailbox, it must open it
+up to read it. When this happens, most other 'biff' utilities (including your
+shell's built-in one) will assume that you read your mailbox and announce it
+as old (or "read") mail.</para>
+
+<para>There are three ways around this:
+<orderedlist><listitem>
+<para>Don't use KBiff.</para>
+</listitem>
+<listitem>
+<para>Use the 'file' protocol instead of the 'mbox' protocol (note that you'll
+no longer know how many new mails have arrived)</para>
+</listitem>
+<listitem>
+<para>Convert all of your 'mbox' mailboxes to 'maildir'</para>
+</listitem>
+</orderedlist>
+</para>
+</sect1>
+
+<sect1 id="howdoiusenetscapemailwithkbiff">
+<title>How do I use Netscape Mail with KBiff?</title>
+
+<para>You tried 'netscape -mail', didn't you? You then discovered that this caused
+Netscape to complain about a lockfile if it was already running, right? Well,
+here's a workaround from KBiff user Steven Boger
+<ulink url="mailto:[email protected]">([email protected])</ulink>
+Create a shell script like so:
+<literal>&num;!/bin/sh</literal>
+<programlisting>if &lsqb; -L "&dollar;HOME/.netscape/lock" &rsqb;;
+then
+netscape -remote 'xfeDoCommand(openInbox)'
+else
+netscape -mail &amp;
+fi</programlisting>
+</para>
+</sect1>
+
+<sect1 id="kbifftruncatestheinitialslashinimapmodeisthi">
+<title>KBiff truncates the initial slash in IMAP mode. Is this a bug?</title>
+
+<para>No, it's a feature! It is very very rare that one uses an absolute path
+with IMAP. Nearly all mailbox can (and are) accessed either relative to
+the user's home directory or use symbolic names like 'inbox.</para>
+
+<para>If you are trying to read <literal>/var/spool/mail/username</literal> try entering
+<literal>inbox</literal> as the mailbox name.</para>
+</sect1>
+
+<sect1 id="ihavethisgreatfeatureiwantimplementedwhatsho">
+<title>I have this great feature I want implemented. What should I do?</title>
+
+<para>Unfortunately, the answer is likely "write it yourself". KBiff
+is maintained in only a minimal sense. Patches are applied and it's
+updated enough to compile with the latest KDE, but I will be adding
+very few features in the future and likely none that are just
+suggestions. Nearly all patches are accepted, though.
+</para>
+</sect1>
+</chapter>
+</book>