Re: Retrieve inbox contents and email body

2021-07-07 Thread Wim
On Wednesday, 07 July at 08:38, Jean Louis wrote: > > > 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

Re: Retrieve inbox contents and email body

2021-07-07 Thread Julius Hamilton
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 wrote: > On Tue, Jul 06

Re: Retrieve inbox contents and email body

2021-07-07 Thread Jean Louis
* Julius Hamilton [2021-07-07 20:27]: > 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? Mutt is the way. Use whatever you have ava

Re: Retrieve inbox contents and email body

2021-07-07 Thread Julius Hamilton
Unfortunately, I have been trying to get going with some simple tools like grepmail and mail and I can't find an answer to a simple question I have. How are these tools configured? It seems like grepmail looks in mailbox directories already saved in your filesystem, instead of there being some kin

Re: Retrieve inbox contents and email body

2021-07-07 Thread ಚಿರಾಗ್ ನಟರಾಜ್
12021/04/27 06:64.00 ನಲ್ಲಿ, Julius Hamilton ಬರೆದರು: > Unfortunately, I have been trying to get going with some simple tools like > grepmail and mail and I can't find an answer to a simple question I have. > > How are these tools configured? It seems like grepmail looks in mailbox > directories al

Re: Retrieve inbox contents and email body

2021-07-07 Thread Greg Marks
> I would like to retrieve the contents of my inbox - the emails' > metadata, sender, subject, date - to stdout, rather than by opening > an application. Can Mutt dump the inbox page? Does it have any way > to return to stdout information about the inbox? Or should I use a > different tool for thi

Re: Retrieve inbox contents and email body

2021-07-07 Thread Jean Louis
* Julius Hamilton [2021-07-07 22:57]: > Could anyone provide me with some simple steps to download my Gmail inbox > to my filesystem as a mailbox, so that I could grepmail through it? I did > read that the mailbox could be saved to var/mail or just $HOME. In either > case I think grepmail can sear

Re: Retrieve inbox contents and email body

2021-07-07 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Jul 07, 2021 at 09:56:10PM +0200, Julius Hamilton wrote: Unfortunately, I have been trying to get going with some simple tools like grepmail and mail and I can't find an answer to a simple question I have. How are these tools configured? It seems like grepmail looks in mailbox directorie

Re: Retrieve inbox contents and email body

2021-07-07 Thread Jean Louis
* Jon LaBadie [2021-07-08 08:37]: > > Could anyone provide me with some simple steps to download my Gmail inbox > > to my filesystem as a mailbox, so that I could grepmail through it? I did > > read that the mailbox could be saved to var/mail or just $HOME. In either > > case I think grepmail can

Re: Retrieve inbox contents and email body

2021-07-07 Thread Jean Louis
* Julius Hamilton [2021-07-07 22:57]: > Unfortunately, I have been trying to get going with some simple tools like > grepmail and mail and I can't find an answer to a simple question I > have. I recommend that you re-phrase the simple question. How I have understood, you wish to see if there are