Following several responses from this list (thanks all for your
comments), I've revised the script.
Notably, the script now copes with mail which has been moved to a
/cur/ folder without being read. It does still ignore a few edge-case
exceptions, in particular I'm not sure whether it copes in all
* Andrew Oakley :
> Hi, I'm writing a script to mark all new mail read, including all mail
> in folders, for my system which uses Maildir and Dovecot.
>
> The reason for this script is that I use Google Mail at work, which
> forwards to my SMTP/IMAP system at home. When I've finished my last
> che
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> Datum: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 16:26:49 +
> Von: "Andrew Oakley"
> An: dovecot@dovecot.org
> Betreff: [Dovecot] Bash script to mark all mail read in Maildir + Dovecot
> Hi, I'm writing a script to mark all new mail read, including all mail
> in folders, for my
On Fri, 2009-01-09 at 16:26 +, Andrew Oakley wrote:
> Hi, I'm writing a script to mark all new mail read, including all mail
> in folders, for my system which uses Maildir and Dovecot.
Another way would be:
printf "1 select inbox\n2 store 1:* +flags \\seen\n" | dovecot --exec-mail imap
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