notmuch-poll and OfflineIMAP

Sebastian Spaeth sebastian at sspaeth.de
Sun Apr 8 15:20:01 PDT 2012


Jani Nikula <jani at nikula.org> wrote:

>Jacek Generowicz <jacek.generowicz at cern.ch> writes:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Would you have any advice on how to construct a notmuch-poll script
>> that would work well in concert with OfflineIMAP?  In particlular,
>how
>> can you avoid having to re-issue the IMAP account passwords?

>> Any words of wisdom?
>
>Offlineimap supports running hooks after syncing. Check if SIGUSR1 does
>that too. Then you could run notmuch new in the post sync hook.
>
>Also, notmuch new supports pre-new and post-new hooks. You could start
>or SIGUSR1 offlineimap in the pre-new hook. See man notmuch-hooks for

Offlineimap hooks work nicely for running notmuch scripts, i run it this way. Sending Sigusr1 will invoke that too, but I don't think that would be needed. It's mostly for peole running OfflineMap as a daemon....

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