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mjheagle8

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From: /home/mjheagle8

Registered: 2009-07-12

Posts: 186

mutt: run shell command on folder change?

hello all,

i am using folder hooks in mutt and i have a program that counts my new mails and sends me a notification. i want to run this program every time i change folders.
any suggestions how i could do this? backtics didn't work for me (maybe i was doing it wrong) because they only ran when mutt started.
right now i have a macro bound to the command, but this is not ideal.

thanks in advance for all help.

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FitzJac

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From: The Netherlands

Registered: 2011-04-07

Posts: 234

Re: mutt: run shell command on folder change?

I use lsyncd for watching folder changes.
But I don't have experience with Mutt.
Here some more info: lsyncd Manual.

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owain

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Registered: 2009-08-24

Posts: 251

Re: mutt: run shell command on folder change?

Just tried a few things, this seems to work for me:

macro index   <f3> <change-folder>/home/owain/Maildir<enter><shell-escape>notify-send\ foo<enter>
macro browser <f3> <change-folder>/home/owain/Maildir<enter><shell-escape>notify-send\ foo<enter>