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watch_maildirs(1) General Commands Manual watch_maildirs(1)

NAME

watch_maildirs - watch for and display Maildir/Maildir++ changes

SYNOPSIS

watch_maildirs [options ...]

DESCRIPTION

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

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