In the beginning there was Scott Ellis's Sabot. But then I became annoyed with the way I couldn't quit the program without sending it a CTRL-C, or start a program using the WBStart-Handler. Obviously, the time had come to replace Sabot.

I looked for other mail notification programs. There was no other program with the simplicity of Sabot, but also with the power that I needed. So I sat down and thought "Hmmm... an appicon and a file notification... how hard can it be?"

A number of months and about a million new features later, here it 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.
• Written with Amiga E v3.2e.
• To inspire me to write more Amiga software.

Disclaimer

If anything goes wrong -- it isn't my fault.

Extensive, wasn't it?!

Requirements

MailWatch requires OS 2.0 or above, and either

• WBStart-Handler on OS 2.x systems, or
• wbstart.library on OS 3.x systems.

Additionally, MailWatchPrefs requires reqtools.library.

All of these are pretty standard on current Amigas, so I have not included them in this archive. This also helps save space/bandwidth etc.

If you are using the appicons.mwdf then I advise using one of the NoIconBorder patches, like the ones included in MCP, NewIcons or DirectoryOpus 5.5. Icons look much better without the ugly grey border around them...

The program would be almost useless without a hard drive, but then, so would any computer these days.

MailWatch has only been tested on my machine:

Please notify me if there are any incompatibilities with systems of a different configuration.