Re: Tools to get a report of which folders have new mail?

On 2022-07-18 11:18 p.m., Steve Litt wrote:

I use a Dovecot IMAP server on my Linux desktop computer, and I'm pretty good at writing shellscripts. Is there any way I could use doveadm or other tools to create a report that shows all my folders in a hierarchy? Also, is there a way to show only those with new mail?

you could use "doveadm mailbox list" to build the list of folders and "doveadm search" to search each folder for appropriate IMAP flags https://wiki2.dovecot.org/Tools/Doveadm/SearchQuery

e.g. doveadm mailbox list -u username | sort doveadm search -u username mailbox foldername UNSEEN (or NEW instead of UNSEEN)