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getmail, procmail and notmuch
getmail, procmail and notmuch
Overview
This article may helpful for mail-power-users.
This document describes the use of getmail mail retrieval agent (MRA) to get your mails, procmail mail delivery agent (MDA) to filter your mails and notmuch to index your mails and build virtual mailboxes.
Configuration
procmail
DATE_YEAR=`date +'%Y'`
MAILDIR=$HOME/.maildir
PMDIR=$HOME/.procmail
LOGFILE=$PMDIR/procmaillog
LOGABSTRACT=yes
VERBOSE=on
DEFAULT=$MAILDIR/Archiv/${DATE_YEAR}/
getmail
[retriever]
type = SimpleIMAPSSLRetriever
server = imap.domain.tld
username = your_imap_user
password = your_imap_passwd
mailboxes = ("Inbox", "Archive","Sent Items")
[options]
verbose = 1
read_all = false
message_log = ~/.getmail/log
delete_after = 3
notmuch
-inbox +NeoMutt -- folder:Mailingliste/NeoMutt-Devel
-inbox +NeoMutt -- folder:Mailingliste/NeoMutt-Users
-inbox +Debian +Debian-User -- folder:Mailingliste/Debian-User-German
+Familie -- from:mama@domain.de
+Familie -- from:papa@domain.de
+Firma -- from:@meineFirma.de
neomutt
set nm_default_url = "notmuch:///home/user/.maildir"
set virtual_spoolfile=yes
unmailboxes *
virtual-mailboxes "Eingang" "notmuch://?query=tag:inbox"
virtual-mailboxes "ToDo" "notmuch://?query=tag:todo"
virtual-mailboxes "Ungelesene E-Mails" "notmuch://?query=tag:unread"
virtual-mailboxes "NeoMutt" "notmuch://?query=tag:NeoMutt"
virtual-mailboxes "Debian-User" "notmuch://?query=tag:Debian-User"
virtual-mailboxes "Sent Folder" "notmuch://?query=folder:Sent"
virtual-mailboxes "E-Mails mit PDF" "notmuch://?query=attachment:\.pdf"
virtual-mailboxes "E-Mails mit JPG" "notmuch://?query=attachment:\.jpg%20or%20attachment:\.png"
virtual-mailboxes "E-Mails von heute" "notmuch://?query=date:today"
virtual-mailboxes "E-Mails von gestern" "notmuch://?query=date:yesterday"
virtual-mailboxes "E-Mails von dieser Woche" "notmuch://?query=date:week.."
virtual-mailboxes "E-Mails von diesem Monat" "notmuch://?query=date:month.."
virtual-mailboxes "E-Mails von Familie" "notmuch://?query=tag:Familie"