email: push new-mail to /email via SSE (IMAP IDLE -> sidecar -> server -> EventSource)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-23 17:29:20 +00:00
parent 5a0b9ce70f
commit 4b08d0b99c
6 changed files with 93 additions and 4 deletions
@@ -85,8 +85,9 @@ const connection = createSidecarConnector({
  onConnected() {
    // Start email cron once connected (so queue commands can reach API server)
    initEmailCron();
-    // Real-time push via IMAP IDLE; the cron above is the slow backstop.
-    initEmailIdle();
+    // Real-time push via IMAP IDLE; the cron above is the slow backstop. On new mail, tell the API
+    // server so it can push an SSE event to that user's open /email page.
+    initEmailIdle((userEmail) => connection.send({ type: 'email:new', userEmail }));
  },
 });