Updated notmuch to only be available for full-text search. Removed
complete afew configuration.
Added msmtp as mail sending agent.
Added structured neomutt configuration with custom bindings, built for
my personal gmail account, without any plaintext passwords revealed,
etc.
This is a reasonably well working mail setup,
which should provide a stable starting point for further refinements.
Additionally, added some functionality to `mail-check` script:
Allowed user to choose sync target for each run, by
passing in mbsync target (group/channel/..) as the argument.
Also, allows setting password file to use for script through env var,
and made imapfilter location less hard-coded to my system.
Made mail dir synchronization simpler - only a couple of important
directories will ever get synchronized to the local file system, but
still containing basically all important incoming mails.
Removed aerc and switched it for neomutt. aerc is very nice and needs
little to no configuration but neomutt is, as of this moment, just more
stable and mature. It opens quickly, never crashes, has a nice indexing
and quick e-mail handling behavior and is incredibly customizable.
Basically, once you put in some configuration effort, it is everything
aerc isn't --- and that is good, both have their reasons for existing.
It's just that mutt currently works better for me and will thus be the
e-mail reader of choice from now on.
Fixed script to only ask for password once before understanding that the
user does not want to provide it.
Since gpg seems to not differentiate between a *wrongly* entered
password and one entered not at all, we have to assume the user canceled
the password prompt and not bug him again until the next time the script
is invoked.
It will, however, at least notify the user that the process is aborted
in a quick notification message, so that if it was done on accident the
user will still know what's up.
Added videos directory to vifm quick marks (`v`).
Fixed (hopefully) qutebrowser statusbar hiding and showing.
Improved mail checking script password file handling by switching the
hard-coded path to one still somewhat hard-coded, but encapsulated in a
variable to make changing it later on easier. The script is a bit
slap-dash anyway, so when refactored should be refactored overall.
Added `gallery-dl` handling by mpv, whenever a link starting with
`gdl://` is passed in.
Every modification starts with `m` (for mark, akin to vim), and pushes
the messages into the respective state: `a`rchive, `i`nbox, `m`ark
(flag), `d`ump.
Only deletion (`dd`) behaves slightly differently, in that it simulates
a state not a label (even though labels are used in the background).
Fixed moving through different parts of an e-mail being reversed from
what one would expect.
Added filtering by dump tag *or* folder to afew so that incoming mail
should automatically be filed exclusively in inbox or the dump for
notmuch.
Additionally changed the exception for inbox display from list to dump
tags in aerc, so that -- should there be a legitimate mailing list mail,
such as gitlab's pipeline reports -- they are still visible in inbox.
Update `mail-check` script to notify the user both of newly arrived
mail, and in case he has to enter his password to sync the mail.
HACK the paths and ways of finding out if passwords can be decrypted are
static and only applicable to my set up. This needs to be completely
revised and newly approached.
When called over systemd, pass will not display a pin-entry field to
decrypt the necessary passwords for email synching.
This prepares automatic background synching.
Fixed running the hooks for `mail-check`. Command (or variable?)
substition prevented the hooks from running completely beforehand, so I
moved them to a separate function with the option remaining to call a
custom script for them through environment variables.
Ideally the env vars (`MBSYNC_PRE` and `MBSYNC_POST`) should only point
to a single script each, as more involved commands will presumably fail
to execute correctly when whitespace substition is involved.
See more explanation here:
https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/444949
Moved the file containing sender addresses to filter to the
XDG_DATA_HOME directory (usually `~/.local/share/imapfilter/`) where it
will look for a `rollup.txt` file.
This is to separate the configuration values (the filters themselves)
somewhat from the data they act on (values to filter and searches to
accomplish).
Added option to imapfilter to continuously run in the background and
watch for new incoming mail through the Imap IDLE mode.
By default it will run as one-shot and just sort mail according to
currently active filters. But if enabling the `CONTINUOUS` mode in
config file, it will instead keep running and continuously check for
arriving mail to filter.
This could, in the future, be useful to run on a separate server which
watches remote imap folders and pulls them down to its own storage.
For local usage, a systemd service and timer unit are probably more
suitable than the daemonization of imapfilter.
afew will locally add notmuch tags to mails, as well as move them to
specific folders according to the notmuch tags they already contain.
This sets mails residing in the `Dump` folder to be tagged
correspondingly with `dump`.
(imapfilter automatically puts all filtered
adverts and mailing lists into the dump folder beforehand.)
On the other hand, it makes sure that email tagged with `dump` also
resides in the `Dump` folder (if tagged manually with notmuch), and same
thing for `Inbox`.
Changed rollup filter to read the files to be rolled up from 'rollup.txt'
file in the imapfilter configuration directory. (by default in XDG
basedir-compliant directory such as '~/.config/imapfilter/rollup.txt')
The file consists of sender addresses with a single address on each
line.
Make imapfilter configuraiton more flexible to prepare for different
filters being added.
The program will expect its configuration and filter files to be located
in XDG directory structure, within the sub-folder 'filters'.
E.g.: `/home/user/.config/imapfilter/filters`
A global `configDir` variable is available for any filters, which
describes the path to the current configuration directory.
The path to the filter directory can also be accessed through
`getFilterDir()`.
The configuration runs `accounts.lua` and expects it to return a table
with the individual imap boxes as top level entries, so that filters can
then loop through each account as needed.
Lastly, the config will automatically apply all filters found in the
filters sub-folder. A filter is a '.lua' file within the directory.
Other files can exist in the dir and will not be touched.
Added hook for afew tagging for local mail.
Mail will now arrive tagged only as 'new' by notmuch.
afew will then tag the mail accordingly as inbox unread when it is
personal mail.
It will additionally filter out anything marked as spam, or e-mail
containing a List-Id header, which will be tagged as 'list' and not
arrive in the inbox. This filters out anything arriving from a mailing
list from the inbox.
Removed the archive tag -- anything not in the inbox, and not marked as
list is instead used as an automatic archive.
Mail sent by myself will be automatically tagged as 'sent' and also not
show up in the mailbox.
Added `mail-searchcontacts` script, which uses notmuch to search for all
contacts of the mail database.
Can be invoked without any arguments to list *all* contacts of the
dataase in descending order of message count.
Otherwise, it will filter known contacts, first by prioritizing the
'from:' field, and otherwise by searching through the whole database for
the keywords passed in.
It will also re-format the results so that the list consists of
tab-delineated 'mail name' rows. If there is no name, the row will only
contain the bare e-mail address. This format is best accepted by aerc,
for which the script is written.
aerc uses the contacts script for its address completion in editing
e-mail headers.
Renamed `checkmail` to `mail-check` to fit the naming scheme of
`mail-[action]` for mail scripts, to better be able to group them in the
shell.
imapfilter now looks for account information in an accounts.lua file in
its configuration directory -- the file should return account
information as a table with each account being a top-level entry in the
table.
A sample spam-moving script has been supplied:
For now, it will take a list of sender addresses and put everything in
the list from the inbox into the dump directory.
An example list of senders has been supplied for testing purposes, but
this should eventually be read from a file containing an extensible list
of senders (and perhaps even different properties such as subject, etc.)
The imapfilter xdg alias has been fixed.
Coherence between the imap folder structure and notmuch tagging system
still has to be achieved -- either by aerc using the folder structure as
a query map, or notmuch tags automatically being applied for specific
imap filtering options.
Added script to call for checking mail. Will run individual pre- and
post-hooks. (By default, imapfilter and notmuch update.)
Simple options can be changed through environment variables:
Hooks can be set to different scripts with MBSYNC_PRE and
MBSYNC_POST, respectively.
Will also run mbsync repeatedly, until it exits without error. By
default it will try running it 3 times before giving up, this can be set
with MBSYNC_MAX_TRIES.
No functional imapfilters have been added yet.
mbsync and imapfilter both adhere to the XDG base directory layout
(somewhat), checking for their option files in .config/{isync,imapfilter}
respectively.
Everything still pending changes, the mail eco-system is hard to
wrap one's head around.
