About

This script runs continuously and calls notmuch new whenever it detects an IN_CLOSE_WRITE event in your $MAILDIR_ROOT (see man 7 inotify for the list of events). Presumably CLOSE_WRITE will correspond to things like new mail being delivered, a draft being saved, etc.

Dependencies

The superb https://github.com/rvoicilas/inotify-tools/

% sudo pacman -S inotify-tools

Assumptions

This will need to run as the correct user (the one with the ~/.notmuch-config file). Setting User=<user> in the service file should be sufficient to accomplish this.

Also, the service file assumes the repository was cloned to ~/src.

Installation

Pending a proper OS package, this works:

% sudo ln -s ~/src/notmuch-new-inotify/notmuch-new-inotify.service /lib/systemd/
% sudo systemctl daemon-reload
% sudo systemctl enable notmuch-new-inotify.service
% sudo systemctl start notmuch-new-inotify.service

Motivation

Procmail slows Postfix down. Postfix content filtering is also reputedly slow. So premature optimization.

And I wanted to learn how to write Systemd scripts

License

GPLv2 (please share back)

TODO

• Create an install script
• setup User systemd profile (currently a mess https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Systemd/User)