MailFaces

<body> <H1>MailFaces 2.0</H1> <H2>Overview</H2> <P>MailFaces is a Java application that will watch your Mail Server mailbox and display a set of images that represent the originator of the e-mail. It makes use of the <A HREF="http://www.cs.indiana.edu/picons/ftp/faq.html">PIcon DataBase</A> which contains thousands of images representing computer users and organizations. </P> <P>It will periodically examine the mail waiting at a Mail Server and if new mail has arrived, it will display an Icon that represents the sender of the Mail. If multiple e-mails are received from the same person it will display the updated count in the corner of the image. By default, it will use the "userid@host" from the Mail "From:" header and search the PIcon Database for a matching image of that userid at that host. If no image of a user is found, it will try to find an image for the host domain. But the user can override this to select unique images to be displayed based on information from any of the Mail headers. </P> <P><IMG SRC="win95.gif" HEIGHT=95 WIDTH=217 ALIGN=RIGHT> Here you see what the MailFaces window looks like on Windows 95. Assume that this user had associated an image of a bike with one frequent correspondent and an image of a parrot with another. The window shows that this mailbox has 5 pieces of mail waiting; one from the bike rider, 2 from the bird lover, one from somebody at IBM and one from the author of MailFaces. </P> <P>The user can also specify a sound file that will be played when mail arrives from a specific user and/or a default sound that will be played when any new mail arrives. </P> <p>MailFaces can also eliminate the time consuming retrieval of unwanted or unsolicited mail. You can specify special filters that will group mail from selected sites or that contain key phrases in the subect line onto a special "Kill" button. You can then select and otionally delete the mail directly from the server. You can also have it deleted automatically. </p> <P>MailFaces is somewhat based on a Unix X Window program named XFACES. and makes use of the <A HREF="http://www.cs.indiana.edu/picons/ftp/faq.html">PIcon DataBase</A> that is maintained by <A HREF="http://www.cs.indiana.edu/hyplan/kinzler.html">Steve Kinzler</A> </P> <P> The MailFaces documentation is designed to be viewed with a Web Browser that will display Frames so that you can easily navigate to the topic that you desire. But if your browser does not support Frames then you can go directly to the <a href=help_index.html><b>Index</b></a> and select your topic. <p> When you are done with one topic, you can use the Browser's back key to return to the Index <hr> <p> <center> [ <a href=help_index.html>Index</a> | <a href=overview.html>Overview</a> | <a href=overview.html#mailinglist>Mailing List</a> | <a href=faq.html>FAQ</a> | <a href=install.html>Install</a> | <a href=options.html>Options</a> | <a href=usage.html>Usage</a> | <a href=notes.html>Notes</a> ] </center>