Mail notification for maildir maintained by Offlineimap

mail_notify.sh

#!/bin/sh

# WHAT IS THIS SHIT?
	# It's a script comprising of shitty regexes that notifies you,
	# when there has been a change in you mailbox dir. 
	# Works best with offlineimap.

# PREREQUISITIES
	# Depends on inotify-tools and libnotify

# THANKS
	# to Nicolas.Estibals (https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=933429#p933429)
	# for inspiration.

# NOTE
	# inotifywait output usually looks like /home/user/.mail/myname/INBOX/new/ CREATE 1434095160_4.29513.my-Computer\,U\=13529\,FMD5\=7e33429f656f1e6e9d79b29c3f82c57e\:2\,

# SETUP
	MAILBOX="/home/edison23/.mail" # what's you maildir name
	TIMOUT="7000" # notification timeout

# MAGIC WITH SHITTY REGEXES
while true; do
	# watch for changes in folder
	NOTIFY=`inotifywait -e create -e moved_to ${MAILBOX}/*/*/new 2> /dev/null`
	
	# sed out stuff (folder name and file path) from inotifywait output and create popup
	FILE=`echo $NOTIFY | sed -r "s/(.*?\/) .*? (.*)/\1\2/"`
	FOLDER=`echo $NOTIFY | sed -r "s/.*?\/(.*\/.*)\/.*\/ .*/\1/"`
	notify-send -t $TIMOUT "New mail in $FOLDER" "`grep -m 1 ^From: $FILE`\n`grep -m 1 ^Subject: $FILE`"
done