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diff --git a/mail-overview/mail-notify.sh b/mail-overview/mail-notify.sh
index ed0c3e3..3e28bab 100755
--- a/mail-overview/mail-notify.sh
+++ b/mail-overview/mail-notify.sh
@@ -110,6 +110,43 @@ build_body() {
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
+}
+
main() {
echo "not implemented"
}