diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 2561992..b2cfbb2 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -6,4 +6,5 @@ personal.muttrc
 thunderbird/
 autoconf/log
 etc/mailsynclastrun
+etc/.mailsynclastrun
 .dl
diff --git a/etc/mailsync.sh b/etc/mailsync.sh
index 4d8f190..ced17f9 100755
--- a/etc/mailsync.sh
+++ b/etc/mailsync.sh
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ pkill -RTMIN+12 i3blocks
 for account in $(ls ~/.mail)
 do
 	#List unread messages newer than last mailsync and count them
-	newcount=$(find ~/.mail/"$account"/INBOX/new/ -type f -newer ~/.config/mutt/etc/mailsynclastrun 2> /dev/null | wc -l)
+	newcount=$(find ~/.mail/"$account"/INBOX/new/ -type f -newer ~/.config/mutt/etc/.mailsynclastrun 2> /dev/null | wc -l)
 	if [ "$newcount" -gt "0" ]
 	then
 		notify "$account" "$newcount" &
@@ -41,4 +41,4 @@ done
 notmuch new
 
 #Create a touch file that indicates the time of the last run of mailsync
-touch ~/.config/mutt/etc/mailsynclastrun
+touch ~/.config/mutt/etc/.mailsynclastrun