#!/bin/bash # mailsync.sh - fetch mail and reindex it. # # Copyright (C) 2026 Danilo M. # # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as # published by the Free Software Foundation. # # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the # GNU General Public License for more details. # # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License # along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software # Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA. # # Runs mbsync followed by notmuch new, under a lock so a cron timer and a # click in qtmaildir cannot run two mbsync processes over one Maildir. # # Two audiences, which is what shapes the output handling below: a cron or # systemd timer, which wants a log file it can read afterwards, and # qtmaildir, which runs this as a subprocess and shows what it prints. # Output therefore goes to BOTH, and the exit status is real. # # The script owns the log, so the caller must NOT redirect into it as well. A # crontab line ending "> mailsync.log 2>&1" writes every line a second time, # because tee has already put it there. Just call the script. # Defensive: don't rely on cron/systemd/whatever invokes this to have # set these correctly. Explicit beats inferred, especially after the # HOME-not-set failure we hit once already. Fall back to the invoking # user's home from passwd rather than a hardcoded path. export HOME="${HOME:-$(getent passwd "$(id -u)" | cut -d: -f6)}" export GNUPGHOME="${GNUPGHOME:-$HOME/.gnupg}" LOCKFILE="/tmp/mbsync.lock" LOGFILE="$HOME/.local/state/mailsync.log" mkdir -p "$(dirname "$LOGFILE")" # Rotation is NOT this script's job: /etc/logrotate.d/mailsync owns this file, # keeping seven compressed days. An earlier version also rotated by size here, # and the two fought: the script's "mv $LOGFILE $LOGFILE.1" overwrote whatever # logrotate had just put at .1, losing a day of history and leaving an # uncompressed file where a compressed one belonged. exec 200>"$LOCKFILE" if ! flock -n 200; then # Both streams again: a caller that skipped because the cron run holds # the lock needs to be told, not left with silence and an error code. msg="$(date -Iseconds) === SKIPPED: previous run still in progress ===" echo "$msg" | tee -a "$LOGFILE" >&2 # 75 (EX_TEMPFAIL), not 1. A skip is not a failure: the other run is # doing the work. qtmaildir reports 1 as "sync failed" and shows its log # pane, which is wrong for a click that landed during the cron run, and # cron fires every ten minutes so that overlap is routine. exit 75 fi # Statuses are written to files rather than shell variables because the # block below is piped into tee, which puts it in a subshell: a variable # assigned in there is gone by the time the parent reads it. STATUS_DIR="$(mktemp -d)" trap 'rm -rf "$STATUS_DIR"' EXIT START_TS="$(date -Iseconds)" { echo "===== RUN START: $START_TS =====" # Timestamp every line of mbsync/notmuch output as it streams, # rather than only marking run boundaries, this is what actually # lets you tell which errors are from which run at a glance. mbsync -a 2>&1 | while IFS= read -r line; do echo "$(date '+%H:%M:%S') $line" done echo "${PIPESTATUS[0]}" > "$STATUS_DIR/mbsync" notmuch new 2>&1 | while IFS= read -r line; do echo "$(date '+%H:%M:%S') $line" done echo "${PIPESTATUS[0]}" > "$STATUS_DIR/notmuch" END_TS="$(date -Iseconds)" MBSYNC_STATUS="$(cat "$STATUS_DIR/mbsync")" NOTMUCH_STATUS="$(cat "$STATUS_DIR/notmuch")" if [ "$MBSYNC_STATUS" -eq 0 ] && [ "$NOTMUCH_STATUS" -eq 0 ]; then echo "===== RUN END: $END_TS status=OK =====" else echo "===== RUN END: $END_TS status=FAILED mbsync=$MBSYNC_STATUS notmuch=$NOTMUCH_STATUS =====" fi # tee, not a plain redirect. Appending only to the log left every caller # that runs this as a subprocess with nothing to show: qtmaildir's sync # pane was empty for exactly this reason. Cron still gets its log. } 2>&1 | tee -a "$LOGFILE" MBSYNC_STATUS="$(cat "$STATUS_DIR/mbsync" 2>/dev/null || echo 1)" NOTMUCH_STATUS="$(cat "$STATUS_DIR/notmuch" 2>/dev/null || echo 1)" # Report the real outcome. The old unconditional "exit 0" meant a caller # could not distinguish a clean sync from a failed one, so qtmaildir's # sync-on-exit prompt would report success over a sync that had not # happened, which is precisely the case that loses work. if [ "$MBSYNC_STATUS" -ne 0 ]; then exit "$MBSYNC_STATUS" fi exit "$NOTMUCH_STATUS"