[neomutt-users] run script in background?

[Pietro Cerutti]

On Aug 16 2022, 11:25 UTC, Kenneth Flak <kennethflak at protonmail.com> wrote:
>Hi list,
>
>I am using the good old combination of mbsync, notmuch and neomutt, 
>with the notable addition of goimapnotify doing some automated pulling 
>for me. However, I would like to be able to trigger my mail-sync script 
>from neomutt _without_ having to break out of the index window and be 
>dropped to a shell while the update is happening. Is there any way to 
>do this:
>
>macro index,pager <tab> "<sync-mailbox><shell-escape>mail-sync.sh<enter>"
>
>as a background job? I naively tried stuffing an & after mail-sync.sh, 
>but that just mangles my terminal window...

Would it work to configure mail-sync.sh through cron and let NeoMutt 
periodically sync with your local mailbox independently?

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Pietro Cerutti