---
name: "specto"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "specto"
version: "0.2.2-3.3"
release: "Debian 9 (Stretch)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/specto"
---

# specto(1)

an unobtrusive event notification system

## NAME

specto - an unobtrusive event notification system

## SYNOPSIS

**specto**

## DESCRIPTION

Specto provides a notification service for important events. It includes watches for new email (POP3, IMAP, and gmail), website changes (both RSS and simple html pages), changes to local files, and more.

## COPYRIGHT

This manual page was written by Christopher Halse Rogers \<FCchalserogers@gmail.comF\[0\]\> for the Debian system (but may be used by others). Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation.

On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in FC*/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL*F\[0\].