Thanks. There is a lot of good stuff here to look into. I think I will try with grepmail first. I was wondering what the simplest way to send an email might be - the mentioned "mail" unix utility, perhaps?
Thanks very much, Julius On Tue, Jul 6, 2021, 19:33 Jon LaBadie <mut...@jgcomp.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 06, 2021 at 06:19:54PM +0200, Julius Hamilton wrote: > >Thanks very much. > > > >I am now looking into using a Python IMAP library. > > > >However, I think there must be a way to just dump the contents of a Mutt > >page, and that could be an easier short-term solution. > >You mentioned there being a print function. > >Could you provide an example of using that to print the inbox to stdout? > It > >would have to be automatic, i.e. not requiring the user to actually open > >Mutt themselves and type the print command. So that leads me to the > >question of if this command can somehow be passed to mutt as a command > line > >option, or if there is some bash automation tool for calling it inside > Mutt > >anyway. > > > >The context is that I just would like to send emails and check for > >responses in a more precise and quick way than opening my inbox. I would > >like to have commands at my disposal when I am working on something to > just > >send an email directly and later check for responses to that email, or > >check for all new emails from a particular sender. That info would need to > >come back as the output of commands, to stdout. > > > >Thanks very much, > >Julius > > If looking at separate programs, what about "grepmail"? > > Ex. grepmail -h -B -e '^Subject: <your subject>' <your mbox> > > -h (grep only headers) > -B (print body with limited headers) > > jon > > -- > Jon H. LaBadie j...@labadie.us > 11226 South Shore Rd. (703) 787-0688 (H) > Reston, VA 20190 (703) 935-6720 (C) >
