Re: How do you automatically refile mails with mu4e?

[Joost Kremers <joostkremers@fastmail.fm>]

On Mon, Mar 20 2017, Danny YUE wrote:
> How can you refile the mails without opening any mu4e buffers?
>
> I read the manual and I know that it is possible to define a 
> function to
> refile based on something.
> But every time I have to mark-and-execute manually, and it 
> sometimes
> annoys me.
>
> I would like it to be automatically done: every time the index 
> is
> updated, the incoming unread mails are refiled automatically.
>
> My idea is to add something to the mu4e-update-pre-hook.
> But I did not found any clue how I can refile mails in the
> background, without opening any buffer.
> Looking into the code did not really help.
>
> Can anyone help? Thanks in advance.

I'm not sure if what you want is possible at all with mu4e 
(personally I use my mail provider's file & filtering options, 
other people do it locally using something like procmail).

However, mu4e has its own mailing list. I think your best bet 
would be to ask your question there.

HTH


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Joost Kremers
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