mailcat/restart_prompt.md

Restart Prompt

You are continuing the mailcat project in /Users/hanswienen/Documents/Development/Vibes/mailcat.

Current Goal

The real hans mailbox has been completely reordered, and Roundcube/Managesieve filters have been uploaded for ongoing incoming-mail sorting. The Python live sorter and web route-management interface are no longer needed.

The repository is intentionally reduced to the minimum tooling needed to:

1. Repeat folder creation and historical reordering if needed.
2. Keep/generate the Roundcube Sieve policy.
3. Continue unsubscribe work.
4. Run the daily report.

Do not run mailbox-affecting scripts yourself unless the user explicitly authorizes it. The user prefers to run those scripts personally.

Collaboration Rules

• Follow the git workflow from AGENTS.md.
• Before making file, code, or configuration changes, present a plan and wait for explicit approval.
• Work on branch codex unless the user says otherwise.
• Before every commit, rewrite this file from scratch as the current reconstruction prompt.
• Commit after each user-prompted code change using the required three-section commit message format.
• Keep runtime logs/state files unless the user explicitly says to delete them.
• Do not commit credentials.

Kept Files

Core configuration and IMAP helpers:

• config.py
• imap_utils.py
• config.json is local-only and ignored; it contains account credentials.

Routing/reorder policy:

• mail_routes.py
• domain_routes.json
• mailinglist_routes.json
• maak_mappen.py
• verplaats_bestaand.py

Roundcube/Sieve:

• mailcat_roundcube.sieve
• roundcube.txt is local-only user export/test evidence and should not be treated as production policy.

Unsubscribe:

• unsubscribe.py
• decisions.json
• unsubscribe_log.json is runtime state and should not be committed unless the user explicitly asks.

Daily report:

• dagelijks_overzicht.py
• tests/test_dagelijks_overzicht.py

Logs/state kept:

• backup_log.json
• verplaats_log.json
• verplaats_log_voor_aiwijzigingen.json
• verplaats_bestaand.log
• unsubscribe_log.json

Current Behavior

Roundcube/Sieve:

• mailcat_roundcube.sieve is the generated Roundcube/Managesieve Sieve file for the current routing setup.
• It uses INBOX.-prefixed mailbox names because the user's Roundcube export used fileinto :copy "INBOX.Notes";.
• It includes Afmelden.* routes and uses fileinto without :copy, so matching incoming messages are sorted instead of duplicated.
• Rules have Roundcube-compatible # rule:[...] names.
• Financial rules are first; the invoice rule remains one dynamic quarter rule, then remaining financial rules and all other rules are alphabetically ordered by rule name.
• Duplicate destination names are disambiguated with / Mailing-list or / Domain suffixes.

Daily report:

• dagelijks_overzicht.py builds an HTML digest for a selected date, defaulting to yesterday.
• It supports --account and --mail-to.
• It searches sorted folders, excluding inbox/system/archive/technical folders.
• It sends an HTML email via SMTP.
• Report rows fetch Message-ID and render the subject as an Apple Mail message:// link when a Message-ID is present.
• Apple Mail links are macOS-oriented and depend on Apple Mail having the message synced/indexed locally.
• Report HTML escapes folder labels, senders, subjects, and link attributes.

Historical reorder:

• verplaats_bestaand.py defaults to dry-run. Real moves require --uitvoeren and interactive JA.
• Account selection is explicit with --account <naam>, for example --account hans.
• --audit is available in dry-run mode.
• It logs to verplaats_log.json.

Unsubscribe:

• unsubscribe.py reads decisions.json.
• It processes entries with keuze == "a" and a List-Unsubscribe value.
• It logs progress to unsubscribe_log.json.
• It may perform HTTP unsubscribe requests or send mailto unsubscribe messages via SMTP, so the user should run it personally.

NAS Daily Report

For the current NAS setup, only the daily report needs scheduling. A simple cron entry is enough:

0 6 * * * cd /share/homes/mailcat/mailcat && /opt/bin/python3 dagelijks_overzicht.py --account hans --mail-to hans@australius.nl >> /share/homes/mailcat/mailcat/daily_report.out 2>&1

Use the NAS-specific crontab mechanism if QNAP overwrites normal crontabs after reboot.

Verification Commands

Latest local verification should include:

python3 -m py_compile config.py imap_utils.py mail_routes.py maak_mappen.py verplaats_bestaand.py dagelijks_overzicht.py unsubscribe.py
python3 -m unittest discover -s tests
sievec -c /tmp/mailcat-sieve-test/dovecot.conf mailcat_roundcube.sieve /tmp/mailcat_roundcube.svbin
git diff --check

If /tmp/mailcat-sieve-test/dovecot.conf does not exist, recreate it for Dovecot 2.4.0:

mkdir -p /tmp/mailcat-sieve-test
printf 'dovecot_config_version = 2.4.0\ndovecot_storage_version = 2.4.0\nssl = no\n' > /tmp/mailcat-sieve-test/dovecot.conf

Next Expected Work

Likely next steps:

1. Finish unsubscribe work, with the user running unsubscribe.py.
2. Deploy the reduced project to the NAS if desired.
3. Schedule dagelijks_overzicht.py daily at 06:00 on the NAS.