Mark Mutt Email Item as a Task for Taskwarrior

Install

1. Download from github: mingsu/mutt2task

git clone https://github.com/mingsu/mutt2task ~/.mutt/bin/mutt2task
chmod +x ~/.mutt/bin/mutt2task/mutt2task

2. Add this to .muttrc

macro index,pager T "<pipe-message>~/.mutt/bin/mutt2task<enter>"

Or the following one

macro index I "<pipe-message>~/.mutt/bin/mutt2task<enter><flag-message><sync-mailbox>" "flag message as important and mark as a task"

Code

#!/bin/sh
# Author: Ming Su <me@drwater.net>

# macro index,pager T "<pipe-message>~/.mutt/bin/mutt2task<enter>"
# Or the following one
# macro index I "<pipe-message>~/.mutt/bin/mutt2task<enter><flag-message><sync-mailbox>" "flag message as important and mark as a task"

# 自己的邮件地址，用于查找对方信息
ownemailadd="XXX@XXX.XXX"
# 删除临时文件
rm  ~/.mutt/cache/temp
# 将邮件内容保存至临时文件，这样的好处是能保留多行。
grep '.' $*  > ~/.mutt/cache/temp
# 找到有意义的Subject行，有的由于是转发或回复，不存在实质的subject需要排除。
subject=`cat ~/.mutt/cache/temp | grep "Subject:\|主题:" | sed -e 's/^.*: \{0,1\}//g' | \
    grep -v '^$' | head -n 1`
who=`cat ~/.mutt/cache/temp | grep "From" | head -n 1 | sed -e 's/^From: //g'`
# 检查是否是自己发的，如果是则获取收件人信息
if [[ $who == *"$ownemailadd"* ]]; then
    who=`cat ~/.mutt/cache/temp | grep "To" | head -n 1 | sed -e 's/^To: //g'`
fi
# 如有名字，则去除邮件地址
if [[ $who == *"<"* ]]; then
    who=`echo $who | sed -e 's/ *<[^ ]*>//g'`
fi
# 采用taskwarroir 增加task
# 检查是否已经存在Task，如果没有创建，则创建
n=`cat ~/.task/pending.data | grep "$who; $subject" | wc -l`
if [[ $n -eq 0 ]]; then
    /usr/local/bin/task add +email "$who; $subject"
fi