diff --git a/bin/mailsync b/bin/mailsync
index 3a681f0..3e30300 100755
--- a/bin/mailsync
+++ b/bin/mailsync
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ pgrep mbsync >/dev/null && { echo "mbsync is already running."; exit ;}
 # files for variable assignments. This is ugly, but there are few options that
 # will work on the maximum number of machines.
 eval "$(grep -h -- \
-	"^\s*\(export \)\?\(MBSYNCRC\|MPOPRC\|PASSWORD_STORE_DIR\|PASSWORD_STORE_GPG_OPTS\|NOTMUCH_CONFIG\|GNUPGHOME\|MAILSYNC_MUTE\|XDG_CONFIG_HOME\|XDG_DATA_HOME\)=" \
+	"^\s*\(export \)\?\(MBSYNCRC\|MPOPRC\|PASSWORD_STORE_DIR\|PASSWORD_STORE_GPG_OPTS\|NOTMUCH_CONFIG\|GNUPGHOME\|MAILSYNC_MUTE\|TERMINAL\|XDG_CONFIG_HOME\|XDG_DATA_HOME\)=" \
 	"$HOME/.profile" "$HOME/.bash_profile" "$HOME/.zprofile"  "$HOME/.config/zsh/.zprofile" "$HOME/.zshenv" \
 	"$HOME/.config/zsh/.zshenv" "$HOME/.bashrc" "$HOME/.zshrc" "$HOME/.config/zsh/.zshrc" \
 	"$HOME/.pam_environment" 2>/dev/null)"
@@ -80,7 +80,20 @@ syncandnotify() {
 				from="$(sed -n "/^From:/ s|From: *|| p" "$file" |
 					perl -CS -MEncode -ne 'print decode("MIME-Header", $_)')"
 				from="${from% *}" ; from="${from%\"}" ; from="${from#\"}"
-				notify "📧$from:" "$subject"
+				message_id=$(sed -n 's/^Message-ID: *\(<.*>\)$/\1/p' "$file")
+				ACTION=$(notify "📧$from:" "$subject" --action="open=Open email" "📧$from:" "$subject")
+				case "$ACTION" in
+					open)
+						if [ -n "$message_id" ]; then
+							$TERMINAL -e neomutt -f "$XDG_DATA_HOME/mail/$2/INBOX" -e "'push L~i$message_id\n\n'"
+						else
+							$TERMINAL -e neomutt -f "$XDG_DATA_HOME/mail/$2/INBOX"
+						fi
+						;;
+					*)
+						echo "No valid action selected"
+						;;
+				esac
 			done
 			;;
 		*) echo "No new mail for $2." ;;