NOTIFYMUCH(1)

💖 NOTIFYMUCH(1) 💖

okay bestie, so the manual page is called notifymuch, it lives in the User Commands section of the manual (that's the (1) btw, iykyk), and it is literally about to change your unread-mail life. 🦋

✨ NAME ✨

notifymuch — display desktop notifications for unread mail in notmuch database 🎀

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

notifymuch [-h] [--print-summary]

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

so notifymuch is a simple little program — lowkey humble, highkey iconic — that pops up desktop notifications for unread mail in the notmuch database. and honestly? it's not even limited to unread mail, bestie. it can notify you about any search query, fr fr. main character energy. ✨

and the notification can optionally have a button to run a mail client, so you can go straight from "ooh a notification" to "okay let me actually deal with this." obsessed. 🫶

here's the part you need to know though: when a message is shown in a notification, it gets internally marked as 'recently seen' and then it will not be shown again for two days. and yes, that two days is configurable. no cap. 🎀

🌈 OPTIONS 🌈

• -h, --help — shows you this help message and then exits. it's giving "i got you, here's the info, bye." 💖
• --print-summary — just prints the query summary straight to stdout, without any recency tracking. so no marking things as seen, no two-day timeout, just the summary and nothing else. periodt. 👑

ngl, the whole "don't show it again for two days" thing is the whole vibe check of this program. if you're confused why a message vanished from your notifications, bestie, it's not gone — it's just 'recently seen'. 💀

and that's the whole page, babes — short, sweet, and every single bit of it matters. slay. 💅

this lil manual page is notifymuch, dated December 2015, from the User Commands corner of the NOTIFYMUCH(1) manual. go forth and never miss an unread message again 🦋✨💜