hermes-skills/skills/email/email-workflows/references/shonuff-email-reply.md

Sho'Nuff Email Reply Pattern

Architecture for two-way email: Master emails shonuff@germainebrown.com → AI replies back.

Script: /root/.hermes/scripts/shonuff-email-responder.py

• Collect mode (default): IMAP poll for UNSEEN from g@germainebrown.com, output JSON
• Send mode (--send): read reply from stdin, send via SMTP, BCC g@germainebrown.com

Cron: shonuff-email-reply (every 5 min)

1. Script collects → agent reads → agent drafts → agent invokes --send
2. Dedup via .shonuff-reply-processed.json
3. Mark SEEN after processing to prevent re-read

SMTP: mail.germainebrown.com:2525 STARTTLS, shonuff@germainebrown.com, pw in shonuff.pass

Master→Sho'Nuff prefixes for email subject/first line:

• (none) → immediate command
• [bg]/[delegate] → background, subagent
• [queue] → queued for later
• [lookup] → quick research
• [note] → just FYI

Design rule: existing shonuff-inbox-agent filters OUT g@germainebrown.com. This job ONLY processes g@germainebrown.com. No overlap.