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 kind of configuration file or .rc file where you put in your IMAP and SMTP info. So I would need to already have downloaded a mailbox onto my system. I assume the mail tool would permit that. But I have also not been able to find how to pass my configuration information to mail. The docs seem to assume the information is present as environmental variables, and it just shows commands you can call to send mail, for example. 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 search for it and find it. Thanks very much and sorry for my simple confusion. Any help is really appreciated. Best regards, Julius On Wed, Jul 7, 2021, 19:46 Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support> wrote: > * Julius Hamilton <julkh...@gmail.com> [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 available. If you have sendmail, you can echo > email message and use sendmail. > > You can connect to SMTP server and send email from command line by > using raw connection commands. > > Description : Swiss Army Knife SMTP; Command line SMTP testing, > including TLS and AUTH > URL : https://jetmore.org/john/code/swaks/ > > I am using GNU Mailutils' program `mail' so often, and I send emails > by using Emacs Lisp library and Common Lisp library for `mail': > > Emacs Lisp: rcd-mail.el package as bindings to GNU Mailutils "mail" program > > https://hyperscope.link/3/8/3/0/3/rcd-mail-el-GNU-Mailutils-mail-program.html > > I have tried using mutt as batch in the same manner, I could maybe > rewrite it for mutt. Mutt does some things in batch mode better than > `mail' maybe some features are missing. > > -- > Jean > > Take action in Free Software Foundation campaigns: > https://www.fsf.org/campaigns > > In support of Richard M. Stallman > https://stallmansupport.org/ >
