Open first unread mailbox, otherwise any mailbox

[dorsiflexion]

How can one start neomutt in such a way, that it opens a mailbox with unread mail on start, and when there is no unread mail it opens any (or even better: a specified) mailbox?

I know of -Z that opens a mailbox with unread mail. But with this option, neomutt immediately exits when there is no new mail. -Zf "/some/mailbox" doesn't work either.

startup-hook 'exec next-unread-mailbox' doesn't work, probably because it's too early when this hook is executed.

A workaround is sh -c 'neomutt -Z || neomutt -f "/some/mailbox"'. But this calls neomutt twice, which will definitely and unnecessarily do some stuff twice, and it also forces one to start a shell, which is also unnecessary, making it pretty ugly.

[roccoblues]

Hi @dorsiflexion, that definitely sounds useful. I'm not aware of a way to do that in NeoMutt at the moment.

I see two ways to build this:

1. Add a new CLI arg. Not sure if I like this. Adding CLI args for every new use-cases easily could lead to a mess. 😏
2. Rethink our hooks. This is something @flatcap and me briefly discussed on IRC. We could add more hooks on clearly defined points (after initialize, after gui initialized, ...). This seems like a good use-case for it.