From e6e0d1498b01a3842f712011a5eba2b693670bb2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 23:10:28 +0000
Subject: documentation update

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@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.</p>
 
 <h2><a name="news">News</a></h2>
 
-<div class="news-date">Wed Oct 22 2003: </div> <p class="news-text"><a
+<div class="news-date">Thu Oct 23 2003: </div> <p class="news-text"><a
 href="libnewmail-0.3.tar.gz">Version 0.3</a> released; changes
 include: add new tool <tt>nm-spoolhack</tt> for emulating unix mail
 spools, build fixes, added some <tt>const</tt>s to the headers,
@@ -71,10 +71,19 @@ your own mail checking plugins. Programs using <tt>libnewmail</tt> may
 query for both the boolean availability and the number of available
 mails. (The former is usually much faster than the latter) The library
 is able to distuingish between new (unread) and old (read, current)
-mails. It includes two CLI tools <tt>nmail</tt> and
-<tt>nmail-async</tt> using the <tt>libnewmail</tt> API for mail
-checking. They are intended to be an example how to use the API with
-either the synchronous or the asynchronous interface.</p>
+mails. It includes four CLI tools <tt>easy</tt>, <tt>nmail</tt>,
+<tt>nmail-async</tt> and <tt>nm-spoolhack</tt>using the
+<tt>libnewmail</tt> API for mail checking. They are intended to be an
+example how to use the API with either the synchronous or the
+asynchronous interface. The utility <tt>nm-spoolhack</tt> serves a
+special purpose: mail checking applets using the <tt>stat()</tt> trick
+to check the status of Unix mail spools may be tought new tricks by
+pointing them to the emulated mail spool generated by this tool
+according to another (remote) mail spool. The emulated spool is at
+most a single byte in size but carries the right <tt>stat()</tt>
+attributes to fool the applets. This way you may use the Gnome mail
+check applet to query IMAPS mail spools, as an example. It's a hack,
+but it works quite well.</p>
 
 <h2><a name="status">Status</a></h2>
 
@@ -207,7 +216,7 @@ L. Peter Deutsch. Thanks to him for this.</p>
 
 <hr/>
 <address>Lennart Poettering &lt;@PACKAGE_BUGREPORT@&gt;, October 2003</address>
-<div><i>$Id: README.html.in 43 2003-10-20 22:13:53Z lennart $</i></div>
+<div><i>$Id$</i></div>
 
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