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Re: package for Email
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Jean Louis |
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Re: package for Email |
Date: |
Thu, 19 Jan 2023 06:53:50 +0300 |
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Mutt/2.2.9+54 (af2080d) (2022-11-21) |
Among all synchronization tools, I find program `movemail' which is
also supported by Emacs, more useful, as it supports all kinds of
mailboxes, it is part of GNU Mailutils.
GNU Mailutils:
https://mailutils.org/
Usage instructions:
$ movemail --help
Usage: movemail [OPTION...] inbox-url destfile [POP-password]
GNU movemail -- move messages across mailboxes.
--[no-]emacs output information used by Emacs rmail interface
--[no-]ignore-errors try to continue after errors
--max-messages=NUMBER process at most NUMBER messages
-m, --[no-]progress-meter enable progress meter
--[no-]notify enable biff notification
--onerror=KW[,KW...] what to do on errors
-P, --owner=MODELIST control mailbox ownership
-p, --[no-]preserve, --keep-messages
preserve the source mailbox
--program-id=FMT set program identifier for diagnostics (default:
program name)
-r, --[no-]reverse reverse the sorting order
-u, --[no-]uidl use UIDLs to avoid downloading the same message
twice
-v, --verbose increase verbosity level
I use it like this, but in a program that is invoked by crontab,
Common Lisp:
(defun movemail (mailbox)
(let ((pids (shell-1st-result "pgrep -f movemail")))
(if pids (error "Other movemail processs exists.")
(concatenate 'string
"timeout 10m /usr/local/bin/movemail -m "
;; "movemail "
(when debug "--debug-level='mailbox.prot,!trace6' ")
"-v 'imaps://" username ":" password "@" server ":" port "/"
(car (gethash (intern mailbox) mailboxes)) "' \""
(cadr (gethash (intern mailbox) mailboxes))
"\""))))
So it would be like:
$ timeout 10m /usr/local/bin/movemail -m
'imaps://USERNAME:PASSWORD@example.com:993/INBOX' ~/Maildir
or other server folders are transferred to local maildirs:
$ timeout 10m /usr/local/bin/movemail -m
'imaps://USERNAME:PASSWORD@example.com:993/INBOX.OtherFolder'
~/Maildir/otherfolder
--
Jean
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