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> I had a script that piped to curl to send, Mail.app for downloading via POP and Vim to read/write Wow, this is very interesting, and I might even try it at s
by kugurerdem 3y ago
> I had a script that piped to curl to send, Mail.app for downloading via POP and Vim to read/write
Wow, this is very interesting, and I might even try it at some point. It might have been a bit challenging to sync and read the emails though, but the sending part seems nice.
Was the reason for why you gave up related to syninc emails?
- tambourine_man 3y agoI liked that Mail.app stored every message as a single separate file, instead of the mbox that Thunderbird and others did. But at some version they started saving a hash with a multiple folder structure and that broke the setup. I had a few issues with MIME encoding as well, which were probably my fault. It was too much work and I eventually gave up, but if I find the will to do it again, I'd choose a simple POP downloader + some filter (if not in address book or previous recipients, move message to “Unknown”). qlmanage worked great for HTML messages and attachments, though.
- dredmorbius 3y agoFYI, the maildir format (usable with mutt and numerous other email clients) also saves each email message as an individual file, and avoids mbox's notorious quoting issue. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maildir https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maildir>