ViMmail v0.0.1 - A Simple Mail Viewer for Motif
(c) Vincent Mallet 1997, 1999 - vmallet@enst.fr

Check out the homepage: http://www.stud.enst.fr/~vmallet/ViMmail.html

WHAT IS VIMMAIL
===============

ViMmail is a simple mail viewer for *nix with a Motif GUI, written in
C++. It is fast and has been written as a xbiff replacement with mail
viewing capabilities.

Typically, when you click on the xbiff-like icon a window appears in
which you can quickly view your mail (mails are colored) and hide the
window again. It looks in a unix mail file such as
/var/spool/mail/... (configurable), and can be used to read mails
stored in $HOME/mbox files.

ViMmail is distributed under the term of the GNU General Public License 
(GPL). See the file COPYING.

More information is available on the web page.


ANOTHER MAIL READER ?
=====================

Haem, yes there are plenty of powerful mail readers out there..  So
why this one ? Actually I needed a _fast_ and light mail viewer
because I often looked at my spool mail file with 'less' when I
received a new mail..

I wrote ViMmail when I was at the University of Nice, France in
1997. The code has been sleeping since then and I thought it would
maybe interest someone else it I released it.


STATUS
======

ViMmail has very basic functonalities. It has many bugs, but it works
and it almost looks good :) There is still a lot of work to do to make
it reliable and very useful. If you're interested, let me know ! 


FEEDBACK
========

I am very open to all kind of comments, suggestions, ideas and feedback.
If you have anything to say about ViMmail I'll be very happy to get
a mail from you. 

I would also like to know about successful compilations. If you got
ViMmail to work your machine, tell me what it is and what OS it is
running (the compiler used would be good too).

If you would like to contribute with some patches or with a better
web page design, it would be even better :)

Send your comments to <vmallet@enst.fr>. Thanks.


REQUIREMENTS
============

ViMmail requires that you have a Motif 1.2 compatible library installed
on your system. If you don't have one, try the LessTif library
(http://www.lesstif.org)


HOW TO COMPILE
==============

Simply do

./configure
make

If it doesn't work, look at the file INSTALL

You may have a broken g++ compiler.. If this is the
case, try something like 
CXX=CC ./configure 


Again, I would like to get some feedback. Send your
suggestions and bug reports to <vmallet@enst.fr>, thanks !


Vincent    1999.04.21
