WMFetchmailMon 0.3 review

WMFetchmailMon try to help fetchmail users having a single dialup connexion

License: GPL (GNU General Public License) File size: 51K Developer: Guilhem BONNEFILLE

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WMFetchmailMon try to help fetchmail users having a single dialup connexion. For such users it's hard to decide wether or not the mail fetching process is done.

WMFetchmailMon provide an applet to monitor graphically the /var/log/mail.log in order to decide if the dialup connection could be closed.

The main question to answer is "Is fetchmail currently retrieving some messages or not" in order to safely broke the link (PPP?).

Compilation:

Classic "./configure ; make ; make install", but 'configure' step require --with-wmapp option.

This option is mandatory because wmfetchmailmon requires WMApp which is only in early stages, ie development.

In order to build wmfetchmailmon, you have to download, extract and compile WMApp. Then, you can compile fetchmailmon, indicating the path to WMApp source tree with '--with-wmapp' option. Take care to use an absolute path name.

For example, imagine you extract WMApp in /tmp (because it's just for compilation, a temporary usage). Your 'configure' command line will look something like: % ./configure --with-wmapp=/tmp/wmapp-x.y.z

Check INSTALL file for any generic informations about 'configure' usage.