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# The KBiff Handbook

Kurt Granroth <granroth@kde.org>
Version 2.3.6 June 03, 1999

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

## 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

## 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
- 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?

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