notification script for notmuch/afew

notmuch-notify.py

#!/usr/bin/env python3

# Send notifications for all mails with the "notify" tag via notify-send
# 
# This is best used in combination with afew. To notify for all new messages just add
# the following filter to your ~/.config/afew/config just before [InboxFilter]:
#
# [Filter.0]
# message = notify
# query = tag:new AND NOT tag:killed AND NOT tag:spam
# tags = +notify
#
# Then run this script after each call to afew, e.g. in you notmuch post-new hook

import notmuch
import subprocess

def notify(title, message):
    subprocess.Popen(['notify-send', "--app-name=notmuch-notify", title, message])

for message in notmuch.Database(mode=notmuch.Database.MODE.READ_WRITE).create_query('tag:notify').search_messages():
    print(message)
    message.remove_tag('notify')
    notify("New mail from {}".format(message.get_header('From')), message.get_header('Subject'))
    del message  # python's scoping is shit: message will survive the for loop and db will not be closed