Sending all mail in IMAP folder from command line

[Gregory Heytings]

> 
> I have draft messages appearing in an imap folder. I would like to write 
> a script that reads a message (or all messages) from that folder and 
> sends it as it is, then moving the message to imap Sent folder.
> 
> It seems something like mutt -H would do the job, just can’t figure out 
> how to get it to read the message from the imap Drafts folder instead of 
> a file. 
> 
> Also not sure what is the file format mutt -H expects if I were to read 
> the imap folder messages into a file first?
>

It can be done, but it's a bit tricky.

Put the following script somewhere in your path, and make it executable:

#!/bin/sh
printf "%s" "$1" > ~/.mutt/value

Then execute the following script (after changing the "Drafts" and "Sent" 
value if necessary):

#!/bin/bash
mutt -e "push '<change-folder>=Drafts<enter><enter-command>set status_format = \"get_value '%m'|\"<return><quit>'"
N=$(cat ~/.mutt/value)
for ((;N>1;N--))
do
   mutt -e 'set postponed = "=Drafts"; set record = "=Sent"; set editor=builtin;' -e 'push "<recall-message><select-entry>.<return><send-message><quit>"'
done
mutt -e 'set postponed = "=Drafts"; set record = "=Sent"; set editor=builtin;' -e 'push "<recall-message>.<return><send-message><quit>"'