On Mon, Nov 16, 2020 at 08:19:21AM +1100, Cameron Simpson <c...@cskk.id.au> wrote:
> On 15Nov2020 09:56, Olli Savolainen <o...@savolai.net> wrote: > >I have draft messages appearing in an imap folder. I would like to > >write a script that reads a message (or all messages) from that folder > >and sends it as it is, then moving the message to imap Sent folder. > > > >It seems something like mutt -H would do the job, just can’t figure > >out how to get it to read the message from the imap Drafts folder > >instead of a file. > > > >Also not sure what is the file format mutt -H expects if I were to > >read the imap folder messages into a file first? > > > >(If mutt doesn’t work for this I would also welcome help in the form of > >strategic pointers. Also say, a php, python or powershell solution > >would be ok - if you know this particular task would be easy in some > >another ecosystem, tips are welcome. This seems like such a simple task > >to automate that I’m mainly trying to minimize amount of code I’ll need > >to maintain.) > > Is this once off or to happen regularly? > > You could for this: > - save all the messages to a local filesystem maildir folder > - write a short shell loop to run mutt -H for each message file in the > maildir > > Cheers, > Cameron Simpson <c...@cskk.id.au> Another option, especially if you need to do this a lot, is to use imapfilter if you know (or want to learn) lua (https://github.com/lefcha/imapfilter). cheers, raf
