Questions tagged [maildir]
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Mutt/Neomutt with Maildir do not save sent email
Since I changed from mbox to Maildir format, mutt/neomutt does not save sent email in ~/.muttrc I have et mbox_type=Maildir set folder="~/Maildir" set mask="!^\\.[^.]" set mbox=...
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Be notified of new mail in any Maildir inbox under ~/Mail, in the Zsh shell
I have a cron job that fetches new mail from several mail servers every 20 minutes. The mail is automatically sorted into Maildir mailboxes in a hierarchy under ~/Mail. I want to be notified in the ...
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Convert Thunderbird IMAP mail folder to maildir
I currently use mu4e with a maildir storage format as my email client. I used to use Thunderbird with an old Outlook based email account for work, using IMAP. In my .thunderbird directory tree, I can ...
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mail: How do I mark an email as unread?
I am using mail from GNU Mailutils to read the contents of a Maildir. For emails that have already been marked as read, is there a way to mark them as unread in mail?
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Display name and/or path of currently viewed email in mutt/neomutt
I'm using neomutt (an updated fork of mutt) as my CLI MUA (read: mail reading software in the terminal) and have all my messages synced offline using isync/mbsync and stored in the maildir-format on ...
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Can mutt handle exclamation points instead of colons in file names?
I'm wanting to move my maildir folder to a different disk that has a Window file system. However, the file system does not allow colons (:) in file names, which Maildir uses in some file names by ...
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Copy mail file from maildir over ssh [duplicate]
The maildir has a specific format of the files laying underneath, e.g. 1549464014.9224_427.hostname:2,RS. In Debian environment copying this file over SSH without renaming is impossible or I don't ...
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Compressed Maildir [was Strange Postfix Maildir files]
I was called to solve a situation of recovering a backup of emails from a legacy server that died. Having Maildir files, and with some header data, I could easily determine with some detective work ...
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