Make elfeed-protocol Nextcloud password fetch retriable

A failed pass/gpg fetch (e.g. YubiKey not plugged in yet) used to pass
process output straight to string-trim, which signals instead of
returning nil on empty output, aborting the sentinel before
elfeed-feeds or elfeed-protocol-enable ran. That left elfeed-feeds nil
for the rest of the session with no visible error beyond a *Messages*
line, and every later elfeed-update silently had nothing to fetch.

Wrap the fetch in azos/elfeed-protocol-init-feeds so a failed attempt
can be retried interactively instead of requiring a full reload of the
elfeed-protocol feature.

features/lauretta/emacs/config.org

@@ -207,12 +207,9 @@ deprecation warning, and =elfeed-feeds= ends up with the bare URL
 and no =:password=, so requests silently authenticate with an empty
 password and nothing ever lands in the db.
 
-This =:config= block runs synchronously the first time =elfeed= is
-loaded (i.e. the first =M-x elfeed= of the session), with no user
-keypress behind it the way =azos/caldav-sync= has. Fetching the
-password with =shell-command-to-string= there used to deadlock
-Emacs whenever the GPG PIN cache had expired: that call blocks
-Emacs's single thread on the =pass|gpg= subprocess, but
+Fetching the password with =shell-command-to-string= used to
+deadlock Emacs whenever the GPG PIN cache had expired: that call
+blocks Emacs's single thread on the =pass|gpg= subprocess, but
 =pinentry-emacs= (see the GPG Pinentry section above) needs Emacs's
 command loop running to answer its loopback prompt — so Emacs waits
 on gpg-agent while gpg-agent waits on Emacs. Fetching the password
@@ -222,11 +219,27 @@ with =make-process= instead keeps the command loop alive, so
 fires. Same stderr-redirect reasoning as before, to keep a stray
 gpg/pass warning off the captured password.
 
+The fetch is wrapped in a named, interactive function rather than
+inlined in =:config= so a failed attempt (e.g. =pass= produced no
+output because the YubiKey wasn't plugged in yet) can be retried
+with =M-x azos/elfeed-protocol-init-feeds= — re-running =:config=
+itself would require reloading the =elfeed-protocol= feature
+entirely. An earlier version passed =(process-get proc 'output)=
+straight to =string-trim=, which signals (not just returns nil) when
+no output was ever read, aborting the sentinel before =elfeed-feeds=
+or =elfeed-protocol-enable= ran — so a failed first attempt left
+=elfeed-feeds= permanently =nil= for the rest of the session with no
+visible error beyond a =*Messages*= line, and every subsequent
+=elfeed-update= silently had nothing to fetch.
+
 #+begin_src emacs-lisp
-(use-package elfeed-protocol
-  :after elfeed
-  :config
-  (setq elfeed-protocol-enabled-protocols '(owncloud))
+(defun azos/elfeed-protocol-init-feeds ()
+  "Fetch the Nextcloud password and (re)enable elfeed-protocol sync.
+Unlike the one-shot `use-package' :config form this is called from,
+safe to call again (e.g. via \\[azos/elfeed-protocol-init-feeds]) if
+a previous attempt failed, such as the YubiKey not being plugged in
+yet — it re-spawns the `pass' process and re-prompts for the PIN."
+  (interactive)
   (make-process
    :name "elfeed-protocol-pass"
    :command '("sh" "-c" "pass zakobar.com 2>/dev/null | head -1")
@@ -234,10 +247,20 @@ gpg/pass warning off the captured password.
    :filter (lambda (proc chunk)
              (process-put proc 'output (concat (or (process-get proc 'output) "") chunk)))
    :sentinel (lambda (proc _event)
-               (setq elfeed-feeds
-                     `(("owncloud+https://aner@nextcloud.zakobar.com"
-                        :password ,(string-trim (process-get proc 'output)))))
-               (elfeed-protocol-enable))))
+               (let ((password (string-trim (or (process-get proc 'output) ""))))
+                 (if (string-empty-p password)
+                     (message "elfeed-protocol: `pass zakobar.com' produced no output; retry with M-x azos/elfeed-protocol-init-feeds")
+                   (setq elfeed-feeds
+                         `(("owncloud+https://aner@nextcloud.zakobar.com"
+                            :password ,password)))
+                   (elfeed-protocol-enable)
+                   (elfeed-update))))))
+
+(use-package elfeed-protocol
+  :after elfeed
+  :config
+  (setq elfeed-protocol-enabled-protocols '(owncloud))
+  (azos/elfeed-protocol-init-feeds))
 #+end_src
 
 ** Elfeed Full Article Fetch

features/mail/default.nix

@@ -25,6 +25,17 @@
         certificatesFile = "/etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt";
       };
     };
+    # mbsync's PassCmd shells out to `pass`, which needs the GPG smartcard to
+    # decrypt. On a timer, a missing card would otherwise surface as a
+    # pinentry "please insert card" prompt every run. `gpg --card-status`
+    # only queries the card reader (no pinentry involved either way), so it's
+    # safe to use as a silent presence check: skip the sync entirely when the
+    # card isn't there, instead of letting mbsync hit that prompt.
+    mbsyncSafe = pkgs.writeShellScript "mbsync-safe" ''
+      if ${pkgs.gnupg}/bin/gpg --card-status >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+        exec ${pkgs.isync}/bin/mbsync -a
+      fi
+    '';
   in {
     options.azos.mail.enable = lib.mkOption {
       default = true;
@@ -35,7 +46,6 @@
         mu.enable = true;
         mbsync.enable = true;
         msmtp.enable = true;
-        lieer.enable = true;
       };
       home.activation.muInit = lib.hm.dag.entryAfter ["writeBoundary"] ''
         if [ ! -d "$HOME/.cache/mu" ]; then
@@ -46,7 +56,6 @@
             --my-address=anerz@post.bgu.ac.il
         fi
       '';
-      services.lieer.enable = true;
       accounts.email.accounts = {
         gmail =
           default_gmail_params
@@ -78,6 +87,21 @@
             passwordCommand = "pass privateemail.com | head -1";
           };
       };
+      systemd.user.services.mbsync-timer = {
+        Unit.Description = "Sync mail via mbsync (skips silently if smartcard is absent)";
+        Service = {
+          Type = "oneshot";
+          ExecStart = "${mbsyncSafe}";
+        };
+      };
+      systemd.user.timers.mbsync-timer = {
+        Unit.Description = "Periodic mbsync mail sync";
+        Timer = {
+          OnStartupSec = "2m";
+          OnUnitActiveSec = "5m";
+        };
+        Install.WantedBy = ["timers.target"];
+      };
     };
   };
 }