Re: Reading mail from CLI with Mutt

[Kyle Wheeler <kyle-mutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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On Thursday, August 10 at 03:42 PM, quoth Michelle Konzack:
>Hello Carl,
>
>If you have a good understanding of the IMAP protocol then you
>can use any (ssl)Telnet clients which support batchmode.
>
>Which mean, you can pipe comands (LIST, GET, ...) from your
>shell script into telnet and the it returns what you want.

Well, heck, if you're going to recommend doing it that way (i.e. a 
method that requires intimate knowledge of IMAP), tell him to use a 
good shell (e.g. bash) that can let him do the TCP connections 
directly:

    echo '? LIST "" "*"' > /dev/tcp/host/port

~Kyle
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