The top-level section describing the GUI settings.

The top-level section describing the mailboxes to be monitored

The section may appear within the x11{} section. This section describes what statistics should be shown on the screen.

The section may appear within the x11{} section. This section describes the pixmaps that will be used instead of the default ones and the settings for the animation.

When beep is on, the tool will signal arrival of new e-mail by the system beep via the system speaker.
Default is yes.

Specifies whether the Shape extensions of X11 will be used for drawing the pixmaps that are specified by frame, nomail, old and new keywords in the settings file.
When the Shape extensions are used, the tool will use the transparency settings of the pixmaps. That is, when a pixmap contains transparent pixels, those pixels will become actually transparent on the screen. With the Shape extensions disabled, the transparent pixels will show up filled with the background color.
The Shape extension is rather expensive on the CPU power and may slow down things a lot on a slow machine.
Default is no.

The command will be executed when the application window is clicked with the left mouse button.
Default is none.

Same as on_mouse_left for the middle mouse button.

Same as on_mouse_left for the right mouse button.

The command will be executed once for each mailbox when the e-mail arrives to that mailbox.
Default is none.

The type of the mailbox. mbox is the standard UNIX mailbox file. maildir is the newer Maildir format. mh is the mH mail directory format. pop3 is for the mailboxes on POP3 servers. imap is a mailbox on the IMAP server.
Depending on the type of the mailbox, some settings may take effect while others will be silently ignored.
The following keywords are useful for the mbox:     file update unread-is-new
The following keywords are useful for the maildir:     file update
The following keywords are useful for the mh:     file update unread-is-new use-mh-sequences
The following keywords are useful for the pop3:     update auth server user password timeout
The following keywords are useful for the imap:     update server user password mailbox timeout persistent

For mbox, mh and maildir, specifies the location of the mailbox in the filesystem.
Default: none.
Note: if no mailbox section is present in the configuration file or no configuration file is found, the value of the environment variable $MAIL will be used as the location of the UNIX mailbox format mail file.

Specifies the period between two updates of this mailbox. The mailbox will be updated period seconds after the previous update is finished.
Default: 10.

For mbox and mh, specifies whether the messages which are flagged as unread are counted as new messages.
Default: no.

For mh, specifies whether asmail should parse the .mh_sequences file in this mH mail directory to count new messages. If this option is set to "no", then asmail will parse every message in the mH directory searching for "Status" headers.
Default: no.

Specifies the type of authentication allowed for the POP3 service. plain stands for the cleartext password authentication, md5 stands for the APOP authentication using MD5 hashes. You can specify either of them or both.
If both are allowed and the server supports APOP, first APOP will be tried.
Default: plain md5.

The server name to connect to.
Default: none.

Your user name on the server.
Default: none.

Your password on the server.
Default: none.

Your mailbox on the server. This is only useful with IMAP servers, you can specify an alternative to the standard "INBOX" value.
Default: INBOX for IMAP, none for the rest.

The connection to the server will time out after server-timeout seconds waiting for the answer.
Default: 60.

The connection to the server can be either opened once and kept open or the connection can be opened and closed every time we need to check for the e-mail status, i.e. every update period seconds. If you do not want the connection set-up and login procedure to execute every time, set this to yes.
Default: no.

Whether the tool should display a line of statistics for each of the mailboxes separately.
Default: no.

Whether the tool should display the summary line for the total number of messages in all mailboxes.
Default: yes.

Whether the status indicator should preceed every line describing the number of messages in a mailbox and the total.
Default: yes.

Whether the status indicator should display the number of old (read) messages in the mailbox.
Default: yes.

Whether the status indicator should display the number of new (unread) messages in the mailbox.
Default: yes.

The characters are used to separate the number of new messages from the number of old messages in the display.
Default: "/".

Start the status indicator at pixels offset horizontally from the top left corner.
Default: 0.

Start the status indicator at pixels offset vertically from the top left corner.
Default: 52.

Use the font-specification for the status indicator.
Default: -*-*-medium-r-normal--10-*-*-*-*-*-*-*.

Use the specified color for the status indicator. The color may be a single word or multiple words surrounded by quotes.
Default: black.

The supplied XPM files are cycled through every refresh-rate milliseconds (1/100th of a second).
Default: 10.

Add this xpm-file to the animation of display to represent the state of empty mailbox.

Add this xpm-file to the animation of display to represent the state of mailbox with only read mail.

Add this xpm-file to the animation of display to represent the state of mailbox when there is new e-mail in it.

Use this xpm-file as the background image. The background image may use transparency. You can specify more than one but only the first one will be used.
You can specify the keyword none instead of the name of the file to be used for the frame. The result will be no frame at all around the applet window.