On Thu, 25 Nov 2010 00:30:45 -0500, Ben Gamari <bgamari@gmail.com> wrote:
> I, for one, simply have a get-mail script
> which calls offlineimap, notmuch new, and finally my sorting
> script. This seems like a more straightforward way to manage this;

I have notmuch new and my sorting script run as posthooks in my
offlineimap, so I simply invoke offlineimap to get my mail and run
notmuch new (and do some tagging)

Sebastian