How do I get tkbiff to display pictures of people or picons?
Personally, I find picons cute but a waste of time/space. However, someone did contribute a configuration for tkbiff that displayed pictures (src). It appears to understand picons although I haven’t actually looked at the code to see how it works. Note that it’s based on an older version of tkbiff, but I don’t think the changes to the config file were major. • How do I get tkbiff to monitor multiple mailboxes? Run tkbiff once for each mailbox to be monitored. On UNIX, just add an -mbox flag to identify the particular mailbox. On MacOS, create a tiny file that says: set mbox “fromSusie” source tkbiff … and then turn that into a clickable icon in the usual way and name it after your mailbox. On Windows, you can take either approach. There are lots of other possibilities. For example, you could have the script prompt for a mailbox. This may not seem as graceful as biffs that understand multiple mailboxes directly. However, there’s little to be gained by such an arrangement – because the
