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+#!/bin/bash
+#
+# Copyright (C) 2026 Danilo M. <danix@danix.xyz>
+#
+# 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.
+#
+# Notifies when mail arrives: one notification per account per batch, naming
+# the newest senders and subjects.
+#
+# Watches the notmuch Xapian directory and, on each commit, asks notmuch what
+# changed since the revision it last saw. A commit is NOT the same as new
+# mail, since reading and tagging also commit, which is why the revision
+# counter does the work rather than a count delta.
+#
+# This is its own process rather than part of waybar-mail.sh, which already
+# has the same arrival edge: waybar owns that process, so a bar restart would
+# stop notifications with nothing reporting it.
+#
+# Usage:
+# mail-notify.sh watch forever (what autostart runs)
+# mail-notify.sh --once process one tick and exit (for manual verification, one tick)
+
+set -u
+
+STATE="${MAIL_NOTIFY_STATE:-$HOME/.local/state/mail-notify.lastmod}"
+CONFIG="${MAIL_NOTIFY_CONFIG:-$HOME/.config/qtmaildir/qtmaildir.conf}"
+SCOPE='tag:unread and tag:inbox'
+
+# How many threads a notification body lists before eliding into "+N more".
+# Three matches the drawer's own --limit=3.
+ROWS=3
+
+# dunst here resolves a themed icon NAME only through its icon_path, which
+# holds no mail icon, so a name renders nothing (dunst stores an empty
+# icon_path for it). Pass an absolute path, as this machine's other
+# notifiers do. This is the icon the user picked; ${XDG_DATA_HOME} keeps a
+# home path out of the committed file.
+MAIL_ICON="${XDG_DATA_HOME:-$HOME/.local/share}/icons/MB-Blueberry-Suru-GLOW/actions/24/mail-unread-multiple.svg"
+
+# Accounts in file order, one "key<TAB>label" line each, read from stdin.
+#
+# Two things here are load-bearing, and both have already broken this
+# component once:
+#
+# The key runs to the closing bracket, NOT to the first dot. Real keys
+# contain dots, so splitting on the first one yields a notmuch tag matching
+# nothing and an account that silently never notifies.
+#
+# And this walks lines rather than matching a section body as "everything up
+# to the next [". Accounts have folders named like [Gmail]/Bozze, which ends
+# the body before its label and makes the account display its raw key.
+parse_accounts() {
+ local line key label
+ key=""
+ label=""
+
+ while IFS= read -r line || [[ -n "$line" ]]; do
+ if [[ "$line" =~ ^\[account\.([^]]+)\] ]]; then
+ [[ -n "$key" ]] && printf '%s\t%s\n' "$key" "${label:-$key}"
+ key="${BASH_REMATCH[1]}"
+ label=""
+ continue
+ fi
+ # Any other section ends the current account.
+ if [[ "$line" =~ ^\[ ]]; then
+ [[ -n "$key" ]] && printf '%s\t%s\n' "$key" "${label:-$key}"
+ key=""
+ label=""
+ continue
+ fi
+ [[ -n "$key" ]] || continue
+ if [[ "$line" =~ ^[[:space:]]*label[[:space:]]*=[[:space:]]*(.*)$ ]]; then
+ label="${BASH_REMATCH[1]}"
+ # Trailing whitespace only; a label may contain spaces.
+ label="${label%"${label##*[![:space:]]}"}"
+ fi
+ done
+
+ [[ -n "$key" ]] && printf '%s\t%s\n' "$key" "${label:-$key}"
+ return 0
+}
+
+# Renders notmuch search JSON into notification body text.
+# $1 the JSON array from `notmuch search --format=json`
+# $2 the true total for this batch, which may exceed the rows present
+#
+# dunst has body-markup in its capabilities, so a subject containing < or &
+# would be parsed as markup and could vanish from the notification. Subjects
+# are attacker-controlled text arriving from the internet, so the three XML
+# characters are escaped here. This is the one place in this script where
+# untrusted text reaches a renderer.
+#
+# Malformed JSON prints nothing and succeeds. A notification with no body is
+# still worth sending: the summary already carries the account and the count.
+build_body() {
+ local json="$1" total="$2" shown rowtext body
+
+ rowtext="$(printf '%s' "$json" | jq -r '
+ .[] | "• " + ((.authors // "(unknown)") + " — " + (.subject // "(no subject)"))
+ | gsub("[\r\n]+"; " ")
+ | gsub("&"; "&amp;") | gsub("<"; "&lt;") | gsub(">"; "&gt;")
+ ' 2>/dev/null)" || return 0
+ [[ -n "$rowtext" ]] || return 0
+
+ shown="$(printf '%s\n' "$rowtext" | wc -l)"
+ body="$(printf '%s\n' "$rowtext" | awk 'NR>1{print ""} 1')"
+
+ printf '%s' "$body"
+ if [[ "$total" -gt "$shown" ]]; then
+ printf '\n+%d more' "$((total - shown))"
+ fi
+ printf '\n'
+}
+
+# The last revision this script notified up to, or empty when there is none
+# to trust. Empty means "seed silently": record where we are now and notify
+# nothing.
+#
+# The stored UUID is checked because notmuch revisions are only comparable
+# within one database. A rebuilt database restarts the counter, so an old
+# revision would be meaningless, and treating it as a floor would either
+# notify nothing forever or notify everything at once.
+read_prev_rev() {
+ local want_uuid="$1" got_uuid rev
+
+ [[ -f "$STATE" ]] || return 0
+ read -r got_uuid rev < "$STATE" 2>/dev/null || return 0
+
+ [[ "$got_uuid" == "$want_uuid" ]] || return 0
+ [[ "$rev" =~ ^[0-9]+$ ]] || return 0
+
+ printf '%s' "$rev"
+}
+
+# Written by atomic replace, the same idiom mail-watcher uses for its
+# heartbeat: a reader must never see a half-written file, and mv within a
+# directory is atomic where a redirect into the final path is not.
+#
+# Failure to write is deliberately not fatal. The notifications have already
+# been sent; taking the watcher down over a failure to record that would turn
+# a bookkeeping problem into a no-mail-notifications problem.
+write_state() {
+ local uuid="$1" rev="$2" tmp
+
+ mkdir -p "$(dirname "$STATE")" 2>/dev/null || return 0
+ tmp="$(mktemp "${STATE}.XXXXXX")" || return 0
+ printf '%s %s\n' "$uuid" "$rev" > "$tmp" || { rm -f "$tmp"; return 0; }
+ mv -f "$tmp" "$STATE" 2>/dev/null || rm -f "$tmp"
+ return 0
+}
+
+# Sends one notification for one account.
+#
+# dunstify rather than notify-send because actions need it. A stack tag per
+# account means a second batch for the same account replaces the first rather
+# than stacking, which is what "one notification per account" has to mean when
+# mail keeps arriving.
+#
+# Normal urgency and an explicit 10s timeout, deliberately not -u critical:
+# on most dunst configurations critical notifications never expire, which
+# would leave mail popups on screen until clicked.
+#
+# The click cannot open the account it belongs to. qtmaildir accepts no
+# command line arguments and startup_account is a static config setting, not
+# a flag, which is the same limitation the drawer's thread rows already have.
+notify_account() {
+ local label="$1" key="$2" count="$3" body="$4"
+
+ # -a carries "New Mail" because the user's dunst format renders %a as the
+ # bold heading line, with %s italic below it.
+ if ! command -v dunstify >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+ # No actions available, but a notification without a click is still
+ # worth having.
+ notify-send -a "New Mail" -u normal -t 10000 -i "$MAIL_ICON" \
+ "$label ($count)" "$body"
+ return 0
+ fi
+
+ # Backgrounded because -b blocks until the notification is dismissed or
+ # clicked. Without this the loop would stall for the full timeout on
+ # every account, and a five-account batch would take most of a minute.
+ (
+ if [[ "$(dunstify -a "New Mail" -i "$MAIL_ICON" -u normal -t 10000 -b \
+ -h "string:x-dunst-stack-tag:mail-$key" \
+ -A "default,open" \
+ "$label ($count)" "$body")" == "default" ]]; then
+ "$HOME/bin/qtmaildir" &
+ fi
+ ) >/dev/null 2>&1 &
+}
+
+# One pass: what has arrived since the revision we last saw.
+tick() {
+ local lastmod uuid cur prev
+
+ # Three tab-separated fields: count, database UUID, revision. Verified on
+ # notmuch 0.39.
+ lastmod="$(notmuch count --lastmod "$SCOPE" 2>/dev/null)" || return 0
+ uuid="$(printf '%s' "$lastmod" | cut -f2)"
+ cur="$(printf '%s' "$lastmod" | cut -f3)"
+
+ # The output is the test, not the exit status. notmuch fails two ways and
+ # only one is detectable: a rejected query prints nothing and exits 1,
+ # while a query Xapian merely misparses returns a plausible wrong number
+ # and exits 0. The defence against the second is that SCOPE is a fixed
+ # string and is never built from anything.
+ [[ "$cur" =~ ^[0-9]+$ ]] || return 0
+ [[ -n "$uuid" ]] || return 0
+
+ prev="$(read_prev_rev "$uuid")"
+
+ # No trustworthy floor: record where we are and say nothing. This is the
+ # first run, a rebuilt database, or a corrupt state file.
+ if [[ -z "$prev" ]]; then
+ write_state "$uuid" "$cur"
+ return 0
+ fi
+
+ # Nothing committed since last time, or the counter went backwards.
+ if [[ "$cur" -le "$prev" ]]; then
+ return 0
+ fi
+
+ local key label query count rows
+ while IFS=$'\t' read -r key label; do
+ [[ -n "$key" ]] || continue
+
+ query="$SCOPE and tag:account-$key and lastmod:$((prev + 1))..$cur"
+
+ count="$(notmuch count "$query" 2>/dev/null)"
+ # Same validation, same reason: an empty string must not become a
+ # zero, and a failure here skips this account rather than the batch.
+ [[ "$count" =~ ^[0-9]+$ ]] || continue
+ [[ "$count" -gt 0 ]] || continue
+
+ rows="$(notmuch search --format=json --limit="$ROWS" \
+ --sort=newest-first "$query" 2>/dev/null)" || rows="[]"
+
+ notify_account "$label" "$key" "$count" "$(build_body "$rows" "$count")"
+ done < <(parse_accounts < "$CONFIG")
+
+ # Written only after every account is done. A single account whose count
+ # fails to validate is skipped above but does not hold the revision back;
+ # leaving it behind would re-notify every successful account's range on
+ # each later tick. Only a failed state write itself leaves prev unchanged.
+ write_state "$uuid" "$cur"
+}
+
+main() {
+ local db
+ db="$(notmuch config get database.path 2>/dev/null)/xapian"
+
+ if [[ ! -d "$db" ]]; then
+ echo "mail-notify: no notmuch database at $db" >&2
+ exit 1
+ fi
+
+ if [[ ! -r "$CONFIG" ]]; then
+ echo "mail-notify: cannot read $CONFIG" >&2
+ exit 1
+ fi
+
+ if [[ "${1:-}" == "--once" ]]; then
+ tick
+ return 0
+ fi
+
+ # Seed before watching, so a first run never notifies the backlog.
+ tick
+
+ # The watch is on the xapian DIRECTORY, not a file inside it: a commit
+ # replaces files, and a watch held on a filename dies with the file.
+ while inotifywait -qq -e close_write,moved_to "$db" 2>/dev/null; do
+ # One commit touches several files. Without this, a single sync fires
+ # three or four ticks.
+ sleep 0.3
+ tick
+ done
+
+ # Falling out means inotifywait itself failed. Say so rather than exiting
+ # silently, which is indistinguishable from no mail arriving.
+ echo "mail-notify: inotify watch stopped" >&2
+ exit 1
+}
+
+# Sourced by the test with MAIL_NOTIFY_LIB set, which must not start a watch
+# loop. The bash equivalent of Python's __name__ == "__main__".
+[[ -n "${MAIL_NOTIFY_LIB:-}" ]] || main "$@"