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## Time-stamp: <2017-12-26 16:19:50 vk> ## This file is best viewed with GNU Emacs Org-mode: http://orgmode.org/

memacs-imap

Options

  • -l, --list-folders, show possible folders of connection
  • -f, --folder-name, name of the folder to get emails from, when you don’t know name call --list-folders

Data Source

IMAP is a popular protocol for retrieving e-mail. Many email servers support this protocol.

Example Config File

  • sample config path and filename
~/.emacs.d/memacs/gmail.ini
  • Content:
[memacs-imap]
host = imap.gmail.com
port = 993
user = [email protected]
password = bar

Example Invocation

Be sure that you have made a config file. (see above)

  • You have to select a folder, so we first list your possible folders:
$ /path/to/Memacs/emails/memacs_imap.py -c "~/.config.d/memacs/gmail.ini" -l
or
$ /path/to/Memacs/emails/memacs_imap.py -c "~/.config.d/memacs/gmail.ini" --list

You will see possible folders. Now we can set one Folder:

$ /path/to/Memacs/emails/memacs_imap.py -c "~/.config.d/memacs/gmail.ini" -f "INBOX"
or
$ /path/to/Memacs/emails/memacs_imap.py -c "~/.config.d/memacs/gmail.ini" --folder-name "INBOX"

Add param -o like in other memacs modules to specify output file.

Performance

The performance of an orgfile with too many entries is very bad. There is an argument to fetch only the last x messages:

--fetch-number <int>

i.e:

--fetch-number 1000

fetches the last 1000 mails

Example Orgmode entries

We will probably visualize an e-mail from Maildir like this:

** <2011-12-28 Wed 13:02> [[[email protected]][Bob Bar]]: argparse
   :PROPERTIES:
   :TO:         Alice Ally <[email protected]>
   :ID:         0b4f3ca74dcad0e3ba62c38e07f6d9068e2ba4d1
   :END: