watch_maildirs(1)

💖 watch_maildirs(1) — General Commands Manual, but make it cute 💖

🌸 NAME 🌸

watch_maildirs — the icon who watches for and displays Maildir/Maildir++ changes 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

watch_maildirs [options ...]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so watch_maildirs watches a given Maildir and displays change notifications. That Maildir may contain sub-mailboxes — yes, the Maildir++ situation — and it's giving main character energy, no cap.

After starting, watch_maildirs prints a lone newline, literally one newline, to signal that it has begun watching the mailbox 🫶. For each change thereafter, it prints the mailbox's name and a newline. That's the vibe.

💅 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 CODES 💀

• 1 — upon error 😭
• 2 — upon folder creation, deletion, and rename that requires a watch_maildirs restart 🔥

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• mswatch(1), inputkill(1), maildir(5)
• watch_maildirs is part of mswatch(1); mswatch website: http://mswatch.sf.net/

🫶 AUTHOR 🫶

Written by Chris Frost <chris@frostnet.net>.

and that's the whole watch_maildirs(1) manual page, bestie — go watch those Maildirs, periodt 💖✨