How do you automatically refile mails with mu4e?

How do you automatically refile mails with mu4e?

[Danny YUE]

Hi guys,

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.

Danny

Re: How do you automatically refile mails with mu4e?

[Joost Kremers]

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


-- 
Joost Kremers
Life has its moments

Re: How do you automatically refile mails with mu4e?

[Danny YUE]

Hi,

Thanks for your advice.

Well, I finally managed to accomplish it myself.

For those who might be interested, I post a snippet here to prove that
it does work:

(defun mu4e-refile-search-and-refile (&optional query)
  "Search by QUERY and refile them. If QUERY is not given, ask for it."
  (interactive)
  (save-window-excursion
	(while (not query)
	  (setq query (read-string "[mu4e] Search and refile for: ")))

	(let (mu4e-active-p)
	  ;; If there is any buffer currently opened, save it.
	  (when (or (get-buffer mu4e-refile-header-buffer-name)
				(get-buffer "*mu4e-main*"))
		(setq mu4e-active-p t)
		(mu4e-refile-save-header-buffer))

	  ;; Search the message and refile.
	  ;; We have to wait until mu4e has finished its job.
	  (mu4e~headers-search-execute query t)
	  (while (not (mu4e-refile-finished-p))
		(sleep-for 0.1))

	  (mu4e-refile-current-buffer)
	  (kill-buffer)
	  ;; If mu4e is active, kill current buffer and restore mu4e
	  session.
	  (when mu4e-active-p
		(mu4e-refile-restore-header-buffer)))))

Then I added this line to my config file:
(add-hook 'mu4e-index-updated-hook 'mu4e-refile-unread)

After that every time I get a new mail, mu4e will automatically refile
incoming files according to mu4e-refile-folder function.

For a complete version please see:
https://github.com/sheepduke/mu4e-refile


Thanks anyway.
Danny


On 2017-03-20 08:33, Joost Kremers <joostkremers@fastmail.fm> wrote:
> 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