Re: Ideas to obtain text file list of emails in an IMAP folder?
On 03/06/2016 17:31, Dan Purgert wrote:
Ron Leach wrote:
Have any debian-user readers ever tried to create a list of all the
email messages stored in an IMAP folder?
Do the same here (Dovecot + Postfix), not 100% certain if this'll match
your setup, but it should be pretty close.
[snip]
#!/bin/bash
[snip most of the the script body]
done )& spinner $!
#############################END#####################
Well. That worked very well. Clever, too; I was thinking I'd need to
use the imap protocol to extract the headers from Dovecot, in the same
way that an email client does.
I've never dabbled in scripts; I'm going to use this to learn about
how they work. I followed most of it but at the moment I don't
understand how the script either
(a) finds each message (we're using Maildir), nor
(b) how it prints the 5 lines in each report stanza while only using
one 'printf' statement.
But that's what I'm going to find out - tomorrow, now.
Anyway, it's doing exactly what I need. I commented out the
inter-message line of '====', because it annoyed the downstream
spreadsheet that I was using to analyse the output.
Dan, I'm much obliged,
regards
Ron
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