Introduction

I used to a use a program by Scott Ellis called Sabot. But then I became annoyed with the way I couldn't quit the program without sending it a CTRL-C break signal, or start a program with a fake Workbench start without writing a CLI script. Obviously, the time had come to replace it.

I looked for other mail notification programs. There weren't any that fitted my needs, so I sat down and thought "Hmmm... an appicon and a file notification... how hard can it be?"

A number of months and many new features later, here is MailWatch.

Some reasons you should use MailWatch:

• Implemented as a commodity.
• Can watch one file or millions (well, I've only tested it up to 16 at the moment, but there are no program-imposed limits).
• Uses external modules to define the program's GUI.
• Has a preferences program, to configure the program's attributes.
• Can optionally run programs on start, and again when it stops. (These can be individually selected for each file that is being watched.)
• Can also run programs or scripts when the state of the mailfiles change.
• Can start programs via the CLI or Workbench, using wbstart.library/WBStart-Handler.
• Quits if run again (in good AUISG style, unlike Sabot).
• The program is upgraded often, and the author is only too willing to listen to feature requests and the like.