From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jean Louis Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: package for Email Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2023 06:53:50 +0300 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="319"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Mutt/2.2.9+54 (af2080d) (2022-11-21) Cc: "help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org" To: Gottfried Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 19 04:56:48 2023 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1pIM2g-000AQ2-V9 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 19 Jan 2023 04:56:46 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1pIM2J-00050h-NZ; Wed, 18 Jan 2023 22:56:25 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1pIM2H-0004xA-4Y for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Jan 2023 22:56:21 -0500 Original-Received: from stw1.rcdrun.com ([217.170.207.13]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1pIM2E-0005iR-52 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Jan 2023 22:56:20 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([::ffff:197.239.7.243]) (AUTH: PLAIN admin, TLS: TLS1.3,256bits,ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) by stw1.rcdrun.com with ESMTPSA id 0000000000103A0C.0000000063C8BF63.00006D07; Wed, 18 Jan 2023 20:56:18 -0700 Mail-Followup-To: Gottfried , "help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Received-SPF: pass client-ip=217.170.207.13; envelope-from=bugs@gnu.support; helo=stw1.rcdrun.com X-Spam_score_int: -17 X-Spam_score: -1.8 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.8 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, RCVD_IN_SBL=0.141, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:142378 Archived-At: Among all synchronization tools, I find program `movemail' which is also supported by Emacs, more useful, as it supports all kinds of mailboxes, it is part of GNU Mailutils. GNU Mailutils: https://mailutils.org/ Usage instructions: $ movemail --help Usage: movemail [OPTION...] inbox-url destfile [POP-password] GNU movemail -- move messages across mailboxes. --[no-]emacs output information used by Emacs rmail interface --[no-]ignore-errors try to continue after errors --max-messages=NUMBER process at most NUMBER messages -m, --[no-]progress-meter enable progress meter --[no-]notify enable biff notification --onerror=KW[,KW...] what to do on errors -P, --owner=MODELIST control mailbox ownership -p, --[no-]preserve, --keep-messages preserve the source mailbox --program-id=FMT set program identifier for diagnostics (default: program name) -r, --[no-]reverse reverse the sorting order -u, --[no-]uidl use UIDLs to avoid downloading the same message twice -v, --verbose increase verbosity level I use it like this, but in a program that is invoked by crontab, Common Lisp: (defun movemail (mailbox) (let ((pids (shell-1st-result "pgrep -f movemail"))) (if pids (error "Other movemail processs exists.") (concatenate 'string "timeout 10m /usr/local/bin/movemail -m " ;; "movemail " (when debug "--debug-level='mailbox.prot,!trace6' ") "-v 'imaps://" username ":" password "@" server ":" port "/" (car (gethash (intern mailbox) mailboxes)) "' \"" (cadr (gethash (intern mailbox) mailboxes)) "\"")))) So it would be like: $ timeout 10m /usr/local/bin/movemail -m 'imaps://USERNAME:PASSWORD@example.com:993/INBOX' ~/Maildir or other server folders are transferred to local maildirs: $ timeout 10m /usr/local/bin/movemail -m 'imaps://USERNAME:PASSWORD@example.com:993/INBOX.OtherFolder' ~/Maildir/otherfolder -- Jean Take action in Free Software Foundation campaigns: https://www.fsf.org/campaigns In support of Richard M. Stallman https://stallmansupport.org/