watch_maildirs(1)

watch_maildirs1

Watch for and display maildir/maildir++ changes

Usage

watch_maildirs [options ...]

Overview

watch_maildirs is a command line application which watches a given Maildir and displays change notifications. The Maildir may contain sub-mailboxes (Maildir++). Once watch_maildirs is watching, a newline is printed. Then, for each change the mailbox's name and a newline are printed.

Options

-m dir, --maildir=dir

Override the setting of the $MAILDIR environment variable (or if $MAILDIR is not defined, ~/Maildir) with dir.

-V, --version

Display version information.

-?, --help

Display a summary of command line options.

Exit status

1 upon error
2 upon folder creation, deletion, and rename that requires a watch_maildirs restart

Releases

Unchanged in 6 releases since Debian 6.0 (Squeeze).

  1. 6.0–11

Author

Written by Chris Frost <[email protected]>.

From watch-maildirs 1.2.0-2.2+b1 in Debian 11 (Bullseye). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.