Re: Slightly OT: I'm looking for a tool to merge maildirs
I recently wrote something like that but for mailboxes. It uses formail etc and requires that each mail has a Message-Id (which some didn't have...). Look into the -D and -s options of formail, maybe it works for maildirs too?
Re: Slightly OT: I'm looking for a tool to merge maildirs
On Mon, Jan 24, 2022 at 10:34:39AM +1100, raf wrote: > On Mon, Jan 24, 2022 at 10:24:41AM +1100, Cameron Simpson > wrote: > > > On 23Jan2022 10:46, Chris Green wrote: > > >This is a bit off topic for mutt specifically but it's about doing > > >things to the mail I read using mutt, so it's not *very* OT. :-) > > > > Had you considered a shell script which invokes mutt with -e to copy > > messages tagged by criteria from a mail folder to your archive folder? > > > > Cheers, > > Cameron Simpson > > That sounds clever and simple. I was thinking of > https://github.com/lefcha/imapfilter but you'd need to > know lua, and have imap access (rather than just file > system access) to both sets of messages. > Yes, there's quite a few similar imap/maildir utilities but they mostly seem aimed at pulling stuff off a [remote] IMAP server to an archive locally. I've looked at several in my search. -- Chris Green
Re: Slightly OT: I'm looking for a tool to merge maildirs
On Mon, Jan 24, 2022 at 10:24:41AM +1100, Cameron Simpson wrote: > On 23Jan2022 10:46, Chris Green wrote: > >This is a bit off topic for mutt specifically but it's about doing > >things to the mail I read using mutt, so it's not *very* OT. :-) > > Had you considered a shell script which invokes mutt with -e to copy > messages tagged by criteria from a mail folder to your archive folder? > That's a good idea, thank you. I have done things like this before (i.e. an mbox to maildir script using mutt), not very fast but who cares, it can take some hours for all I care. I think it may need a separate process to de-duplicate the destination but that's OK. -- Chris Green
