On 06Jul2021 18:19, Julius Hamilton <julkh...@gmail.com> wrote:
>Thanks very much.
>I am now looking into using a Python IMAP library.
Note that imaplib from the Python standard library is only a low level
wrapper for the protocol, not a fulling fledged "remote IMAP mailbox"
tool (which you might expect to trweat it like a map or something).
There are other IMAP modules in PyPI offering higher level access.
>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.
See the manual for "print", "print_command", "print_decode". The
defaults are ok, except that you would want to set "print_command" to
something like "cat" for the message to appear on stdout.
A bit of experimentation reveals that <pipe-message> is as good as
<print-message>, so something like this:
mutt -e 'set wait_key=no; push
"<tag-pattern>.<enter><tag-prefix><pipe-message>cat<enter><quit>"' -f YOUR_MBOX
seems to work. Open mailbox, tag every message (or whatever subset you
want), pipe through "cat", quit.
This is all a bit of a hack - mutt is inherently an interactive
programme and the above works my pushing keystrokes onto the input
stream.
Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <c...@cskk.id.au>
