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@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ An agent given raw `notmuch`/`mbsync` access can do anything, including mangle t No installer, just copy files into place: ```bash -cp mailctl.py mailsync.sh ~/bin/ # executables +cp mailctl.py ~/bin/ # executable cp -r mail-organize ~/.claude/skills/ # Claude Code skill, in its own dir ``` @@ -85,7 +85,19 @@ mailctl tag "from:substack.com" --account personal --add newsletter --apply ## Companion sync script -`mailsync.sh` runs `mbsync -a` followed by `notmuch new`, with a `flock` guard and timestamped, rotated logging. It is meant for a cron/systemd timer and is **not** called by `mailctl.py`; sync and organization stay separate on purpose. +`mailsync.sh` used to live here. It now lives in the companion project +**qtmaildir**, at `assets/mailsync.sh`, which is where to look for it and where +to change it. + +It runs `mbsync -a` followed by `notmuch new`, with a `flock` guard and +timestamped, rotated logging, and is meant for a cron/systemd timer. It is still +**not** called by `mailctl.py`: sync and organization stay separate on purpose, +which is precisely why it moved. qtmaildir runs it as a subprocess and depends +on how it behaves, so the script and the constraints on it belong together. + +Two of those constraints are worth knowing if you edit it: it must print to +stdout as well as its log file, or qtmaildir's sync pane shows nothing, and it +must exit with the real status, or a failed sync is reported as a clean one. ## Claude Code skill |