This program allows you to watch a Maildir for incoming email and display notifications when new messages arrive.
The displayed notifications are interactive - programs can be run when the user clicks on them.
Installation from PyPI:
pip3 install --user maildirwatch
Python3 is required.
Note: PyGObject is a dependency of this program. To install it, you might
have to install GObject development libraries on your system. On Debian, the
packages libgirepository1.0-dev
and gir1.2-notify-0.7
provide these
libraries.
Use the maildirwatch
command, or:
python3 -m maildirwatch
The program will run forever or until you interrupt it with Ctrl-C.
To list available options, run:
maildirwatch --help
The program looks for the configuration file in
$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/maildirwatch.conf
or ~/.config/maildirwatch.conf
if
XDG_CONFIG_HOME
is not defined.
The configuration file is in Python's standard config format (understood by the
configparser
module).
These options should be put in the [global]
section.
maildir
The directory to scan for maildirs. Default value:
~/Maildir
.ignore
Comma-separated list of maildir patterns to ignore. Each pattern must be in fnmatch style. By default, no maildirs are ignored.
whitelist
Comma-separated list of maildir patterns to watch, even if they're matched by
ignore
.You can explicitly select maildirs to watch by setting
ignore
to**/**
andwhitelist
to patterns that you want to watch, e.g.*Inbox*,*Important*
.inhibit-command
Command to run to check if notifications should be inhibited. If the command exits with 0, the notification is NOT displayed and only a message is logged. Otherwise the notification is displayed.
If this is undefined, notifications are always displayed.
Each action is a path to a program and a list of arguments. Every action also has a name that is displayed to the user.
Actions are typically displayed as text buttons below the notification body. When the user clicks on the action button, the action program is started.
Action definitions must be put in [actions]
section. Each action is
defined like this:
action name = /path/to/program arg1 arg2 arg3...
One action name is special - the default
action. The default action's
value should be the name of another action instead of path to a program. The
program associated with default action is run when the user clicks on the
notification itself, not an action button.
Below is an example configuration file that modifies path to the Maildir, ignores spam folder, defines two actions and disables notifications if VLC is running:
[global] maildir = ~/mail ignore = *Spam,*foo/bar* inhibit-command = pgrep vlc [actions] default = Show mu4e Show mu4e = emacs -f mu4e Start thunderbird = thunderbird
Copyright (C) 2019-2024 Michał Krzywkowski This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.