The K Desktop Environment

The KBiff Handbook


Version 2.3 Mar 27, 1999

Kurt Granroth

<granroth@kde.org>

KBiff is a KDE aware mail notification utility. It supports MBOX (Unix style), Maildir (Qmail), MH, POP3, IMAP4, and NNTP mailboxes.

The KBiff Manual


Table of Contents
1. Introduction
1.1. Features
2. Installation
2.1. How to obtain KBiff
2.2. Requirements
2.3. Compilation and Installation
3. Using KBiff
3.1. The "profile"
3.2. Command Line Parameters
4. The Setup Dialog
4.1. Profile Name
4.2. Preference Tabs
4.2.1. General Preferences
4.2.2. New Mail Preferences
4.2.3. Mailbox Preferences
4.2.4. About
5. The Popup Menu
5.1. (Un)Dock
5.2. Setup
5.3. Help
5.4. Check Mail Now
5.5. Read Mail Now
5.6. Stop/Start
6. Questions, Answers, and Tips
6.1. Are there other KDE-aware "biff" utilities?
6.2. What is the difference between a "profile" and a "mailbox" again?
6.3. How do I use my own pixmaps?
6.4. How do I use elm (or mutt or PINE) with KBiff?
6.5. Why won't KBiff play my newmail.au file?
6.6. Does KBiff work without session management?
6.7. Clicking on your email address in About does nothing!
6.8. When I use KBiff to monitor my mailbox, all other 'biff' utilities stop working. What's up?
6.9. How do I use Netscape Mail with KBiff?
6.10. KBiff truncates the initial slash in IMAP mode. Is this a bug?
6.11. I have this great feature I want implemented. What should I do?