Questions tagged [maildir]
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Be notified of new mail in any Maildir inbox under ~/Mail, in the Zsh shell
I have a cron job that fetches new mail from several mail servers every 20 minutes. The mail is automatically sorted into Maildir mailboxes in a hierarchy under ~/Mail.
I want to be notified in the ...
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Big Maildir mailspool - looking for ways to improve performance
I have an extremely large Maildir which contains emails going back many years. I need to rebuild the server and would like to improve the mail storage setup.
My main problem is that backups of the ...
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How do I pipe my raw keystrokes through a command before sending it through ssh to remote systems
To better specify my question, I have decided that I want every keystroke to be piped to a package called safecat which uses the maildir algorithm, which is in turn delivering it's output to a remote ...
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Convert Thunderbird IMAP mail folder to maildir
I currently use mu4e with a maildir storage format as my email client.
I used to use Thunderbird with an old Outlook based email account for work, using IMAP. In my .thunderbird directory tree, I can ...
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How should an email message, represented as a single file, be added to a Maildir?
The naming conventions of Maildirs seem pretty elaborate. I downloaded a message from Outlook's web interface and added it to a Maildir by naming it added and putting it in a new folder. mbsync and ...
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mail: How do I mark an email as unread?
I am using mail from GNU Mailutils to read the contents of a Maildir. For emails that have already been marked as read, is there a way to mark them as unread in mail?
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mutt: determine local path of current mail
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I want to determine the local path of the currently viewed mail within mutt and transfer it to a bash script, before or after saving the mail to a local project folder.
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I am using ...
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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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How to get the notmuch message-id and thread-id from a maildir message filename already in the notmuch db?
Let's assume that I make a notmuch query that returns files:
$ notmuch search --output=files tag:inbox from:love
This returns a list of files, pointing to Maildir messages. Now I pick one of these ...
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Can mutt handle exclamation points instead of colons in file names?
I'm wanting to move my maildir folder to a different disk that has a Window file system. However, the file system does not allow colons (:) in file names, which Maildir uses in some file names by ...
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Is it normal for Postfix to store old messages in mbox when Maildir is active?
I noticed this output when testing my first Postfix installation:
Saved 1 message in /home/USERNAME/mbox
Held 1 message in /home/USERNAME/Maildir
I have home_mailbox or whatever set to "Maildir/", ...
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Copy mail file from maildir over ssh [duplicate]
The maildir has a specific format of the files laying underneath, e.g. 1549464014.9224_427.hostname:2,RS. In Debian environment copying this file over SSH without renaming is impossible or I don't ...
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Bash scripting in a Maildir directory [duplicate]
I want to grep across 500 files in a Maildir directory. I issued the command
grep MyPattern *
I got the error message:
bash: /usr/bin/grep: Argument list too long
So I stored the list of files in ...
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Compressed Maildir [was Strange Postfix Maildir files]
I was called to solve a situation of recovering a backup of emails from a legacy server that died.
Having Maildir files, and with some header data, I could easily determine with some detective work ...
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Where do custom folders of virtual users with dovecot IMAP get stored?
I just set up a Postfix+Dovecot Mail System. This system uses only virtual users. I set the mailboxes up in /var/vmail/DOMAIN/USER in the Maildir format. Now I connected (successfully :D) with my IMAP ...
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