#!/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. # 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" MAX_LOG_BYTES=$((10 * 1024 * 1024)) # rotate past 10MB, see note below mkdir -p "$(dirname "$LOGFILE")" exec 200>"$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" >> "$LOGFILE" echo "$msg" >&2 exit 1 fi # Simple rotation: if the log's gotten big, keep the last run's worth # and move the rest aside rather than letting it grow forever. if [ -f "$LOGFILE" ] && [ "$(stat -c%s "$LOGFILE" 2>/dev/null || echo 0)" -gt "$MAX_LOG_BYTES" ]; then mv "$LOGFILE" "${LOGFILE}.1" 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"