Watch Daemon

Run as a daemon to poll IMAP, sync threads, and push to shared repos automatically.

Usage

# Interactive — polls every 5 minutes (default), Ctrl-C to stop
corky watch

# Custom interval
corky watch --interval 60

Configuration

Configure in mail/.corky.toml:

[watch]
poll_interval = 300    # seconds between polls (default: 300)
notify = true          # desktop alerts on new messages (default: false)

CLI --interval overrides config.

Notifications

macOS: osascript -e 'display notification ...'
Linux: notify-send
Silently degrades if the notification tool is not installed.

Running as a system service

Linux (systemd)

cp services/corky-watch.service ~/.config/systemd/user/
# Edit WorkingDirectory in the unit file to match your setup
systemctl --user enable --now corky-watch
journalctl --user -u corky-watch -f   # view logs

macOS (launchd)

cp services/com.corky.watch.plist ~/Library/LaunchAgents/
# Edit WorkingDirectory in the plist to match your setup
launchctl load ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.corky.watch.plist
tail -f /tmp/corky-watch.log          # view logs

Signals

SIGTERM and SIGINT trigger a clean shutdown — finish the current poll, then exit.

Corky