Are there any good maildir manipulation utilities out there?

Chris Green cl at isbd.net
Thu Apr 8 07:43:51 UTC 2021


On Wed, Apr 07, 2021 at 08:16:32PM -0700, N.J. Thomas wrote:
> * Chris Green <cl at isbd.net> [2021-04-07 22:01:22+0100]:
> > I'm looking for a tool which will allow me to search through a large
> > hierarchy of maildir messages and then provide actions to take on the
> > matched messages.
> 
> You could do this pretty easily with Python, using the mailbox library.
> 
Yes, I guess so.  I already have a Python script (run from .forward)
which routes my incoming messages into appropriate places so I am
a bit familiar with Python's mail handling.

It just seems a pity not to use mairix (or other) to do the searching
bit.

-- 
Chris Green


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