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How to expunge email from the Gmail "All Mail" directory over IMAP? (with Alpine e-mail)
Looking to manually save quantities of e-mail in batches so that they're deleted and expunged from Gmail to free up space. From Alpine the error message received is:
[No messages expunged from folder ...
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How to read All Mail on IMAP Gmail with the Alpine / Pine e-mail client?
How is the "Incoming-Folders Collection" made to include the "all mail" IMAP folder?
Currently, the ".pinerc" has the inbox as:
# Path of (local or remote) INBOX, e.g. ={...
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How to set the X-Google-Original-From header in Alpine (Pine) email?
Why the random down-vote? At least say what the problem with the question is.
I'm using Gmail and Alpine for e-mail with IMAP. Mail sent from Alpine has this field:
X-Google-Original-From: foo <...
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How to backup Thunderbird to mbox for use with the Pine or Alpine e-mail client?
How should the mbox backup from Thunderbird show? Perhaps there's a validation tool?
First screen:
ALPINE 2.25 FOLDER LIST ...
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How to configure Thunderbird for local offline usage?
How would Thunderbird send such a message?
nicholas@mordor:~$
nicholas@mordor:~$ swaks --to [email protected] --from [email protected] --server localhost
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Any utility in Linux to add item to the header of an existing email in a particular mailbox?
I am trying to add an extra header item to an existing email in a particular mbox, e.g.
X-archived-to-crm: true,user,CRM-ID
after it was archived, the CRM-ID is basically the id in the DB of the CRM....
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How to specify the sender with the alpine e-mail client?
I seem to have run into a situation where configuring the alpine e-mail client (formerly just pine) for a specific user seems to override some configuration so that the username for the operating ...
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Display name and/or path of currently viewed email in mutt/neomutt
I'm using neomutt (an updated fork of mutt) as my CLI MUA (read: mail reading software in the terminal) and have all my messages synced offline using isync/mbsync and stored in the maildir-format on ...
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Neomutt Multi account
I have been using mutt for a while and got it to work pretty well with 2 gmail accounts.
I have 2 macros set to switch from one to the other.
wanting to move to neomutt, the exact configuration is ...
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Retrieve mails and process each attachment individually
I want to retrieve new mails using a shell script and if the mail I just retrieved has attachments, these attachments should be saved to a folder. Before the next mail is retrieved, the attachments ...
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Script that e-mails predefined message to multiple users
I want to create a script that asks the user for his username and check if its valid by verifying the user home directory exists. If the username exists it should send an email to the user from a ...
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Modify subject line of cronjob
I have the following one-line cron command set up which gives me a nice simple message in the body of the email upon backup complete (thanks to @steeldriver).
tar -cpzf /home/user/backups/...
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Cannot send email with postfix MTA via mac Terminal
I followed this tutorial closely to set up a mail server on Mac OSX High Sierra. (The comments in this link are important since certain steps should be modified for High Sierra.)
After I sent the ...
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How to extract delimited blocks of text from a file and have munpack decode them?
I am trying to recover the attachments in an email file that was recovered from my harddisk crash. The file is essentially a concatenation of messages, including the attachments in base-64 encoding.
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What is the simplest way to email between two computers?
To clarify the intent of my question, let me make an analogy to the question "What is the simplest way to put data into a file?"
The usual way that GUI users will put data into a (new) file is to ...
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