Command Line Options

When starting the program you can provide the following parameters in the command line:

/CHECK
Immediately after starting, MailBell will check all accounts.

/WORKDIR
Will load the configuration files (accounts.inf, mailtypes.inf, mailbell.ini) from the specified directory, e.g. /WORKDIR:d:\datafiles\mailbell

/MAKECHECK
If another Mailbell window is already open this call will make the window that is already open check the currently selected account. If no window is already open, Mailbell will be started and this this option will be ignored.

/MAKECHECKALL
If another Mailbell window is already open this call will make the window that is already open check all accounts. If no window is already open, Mailbell will be started and this this option will be ignored.

/RESUMEALL
If another Mailbell window is already open this call will resume checking of mail accounts in that window (see /SUSPENDALL below).

/SUSPENDALL
If another Mailbell window is already open this call will suspend checking of mail accounts in that window (see /RESUMEALL above). This is similar to performing the "Suspend Checking" from the taskbar menu.

/LANG:<code>
Force the program to start in a given language. Supported language codes are GER for German and ENGL for English.
Example: MAILBELL /LANG:GER

/MIN
Start the program with the window minimized.

/STARTUPDELAY:<sec>
Waits the given number of seconds before starting the program.

Alternately, you can specify command line options in Unix style, eg.
MAILBELL -min -lang ger

Instead of specifing the parameters on the command line you can also put them (one per line, backslash must be entered twice) into a file called commandline.ini in the program directory, e.g.:
/LANG:GER
/MIN
/WORKDIR:d:\\data