I often work from one machine while receiving most of my mail on another. I read my mail with VM in XEmacs, and I use procmail to sort much of it into various files (e.g., the mail for the Fedora list). In the past, I have used xbuffy and gbuffy to monitor my system mailbox and a couple of these other mailboxes. These programs offer an advantage for me over the mail-notification applet or programs like gnubiff because they provide an immediate visual indication of whether there's mail in those mailboxes--it's not necessary to move the mouse over an icon or click on anything to see whether there's new mail. I just installed FC5 on the machine that gets most of the mail, and I can't find rpms for gbuffy or xbuffy that will install or build. It looks like the problems are due to changes in gtk and to gcc getting pickier, but I thought I would ask for suggestions before I try to brush up my meager C skills. Does anyone know of substitutes for or improvements on (g|x)buffy? I need to be able to monitor remote mailboxes, and I'd like something that sits there quietly showing whether I have mail in each of those mailboxes, but can also show me the From and Subject headers if I ask for them. Pointers to rpms for gbuffy or xbuffy (or how to get them to compile on FC5) would also be fine. Thanks, George
