Hi all,
I could really use a file manager or browser to browse my Dovecot IMAP. Ideally it would have hotkeys to move, copy, delete and send. The send part needn't be coded: Just a call to a shellscript which can handle the send the way it's locally the most convenient.
Anyone know of such a file manager or browser for IMAP?
SteveT
Steve Litt Author: The Key to Everyday Excellence http://www.troubleshooters.com/key Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt
Why not use thunderbird (or any other IMAP talking client)? :-)
Ionel
On 24.09.19 00:14, Steve Litt via dovecot wrote:
Hi all,
I could really use a file manager or browser to browse my Dovecot IMAP. Ideally it would have hotkeys to move, copy, delete and send. The send part needn't be coded: Just a call to a shellscript which can handle the send the way it's locally the most convenient.
Anyone know of such a file manager or browser for IMAP?
SteveT
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Thunderbird is an absolute pig, taking hours to load my Dovecot IMAP. Claws-mail is good, but I have some problems with it. Alpine appears not to be ready for prime time to act as a window into IMAP. Same with the rest I've tried.
SteveT
On Tue, 24 Sep 2019 00:21:33 +0200 Ionel Spanachi ionel.spanachi@hfg-karlsruhe.de wrote:
Why not use thunderbird (or any other IMAP talking client)? :-)
Ionel
On 24.09.19 00:14, Steve Litt via dovecot wrote:
Hi all,
I could really use a file manager or browser to browse my Dovecot IMAP. Ideally it would have hotkeys to move, copy, delete and send. The send part needn't be coded: Just a call to a shellscript which can handle the send the way it's locally the most convenient.
Anyone know of such a file manager or browser for IMAP?
SteveT
Steve Litt Author: The Key to Everyday Excellence http://www.troubleshooters.com/key Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt
On 9/23/19 8:36 PM, Steve Litt via dovecot wrote:
Thunderbird is an absolute pig, taking hours to load my Dovecot IMAP. Claws-mail is good, but I have some problems with it. Alpine appears not to be ready for prime time to act as a window into IMAP. Same with the rest I've tried.
Wha...? Alpine/Pine have implemented IMAP for decades; that was one of the first IMAP implementations to see widespread use. In what way does it appear to "not be ready for prime time"?
-Dave-- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA
On Mon, 23 Sep 2019 20:39:31 -0400 Dave McGuire via dovecot dovecot@dovecot.org wrote:
On 9/23/19 8:36 PM, Steve Litt via dovecot wrote:
Thunderbird is an absolute pig, taking hours to load my Dovecot IMAP. Claws-mail is good, but I have some problems with it. Alpine appears not to be ready for prime time to act as a window into IMAP. Same with the rest I've tried.
Wha...? Alpine/Pine have implemented IMAP for decades; that was one of the first IMAP implementations to see widespread use. In what way does it appear to "not be ready for prime time"?
They only see some of the folders.
SteveT
Steve Litt Author: The Key to Everyday Excellence http://www.troubleshooters.com/key Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt
On Tue, Sep 24, 2019 at 9:19 PM Steve Litt via dovecot dovecot@dovecot.org wrote
They only see some of the folders.
Are they subscribed?
On Tue, 24 Sep 2019 21:53:33 -0600 Roger Klorese via dovecot dovecot@dovecot.org wrote:
On Tue, Sep 24, 2019 at 9:19 PM Steve Litt via dovecot dovecot@dovecot.org wrote
They only see some of the folders.
Are they subscribed?
I don't know.
I looked up how to subscribe folders, and at least the first two pages of found pages described subscription in relation to an email client and told how to subscribe/unsubscribe only from specific email clients. This kind of thing is exactly what I wanted to get around by having an IMAP browser, without all the messiness of an email client attached to it.
My Dovecot IMAP is kept in a maildir tree. If you know how to subscribe a folder within that hierarchy, I could use that to see what's subscribed and what's not.
Thanks,
SteveT
Steve Litt Author: The Key to Everyday Excellence http://www.troubleshooters.com/key Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt
On Mon, 23 Sep 2019, Dave McGuire wrote:
On 9/23/19 8:36 PM, Steve Litt via dovecot wrote:
Alpine appears not to be ready for prime time to act as a window into IMAP.
Wha...? Alpine/Pine have implemented IMAP for decades; that was one of the first IMAP implementations to see widespread use.
Not surprising, as both the RFC for IMAP and Pine are creations of the same person (Mark Crispin, RIP). Both have evolved considerably, though, but as a regular user of (al)pine, I get by just fine.
It's sort of like Emacs -- lots of cryptic keypresses, but once you amortize the time to learn them, you can mulch through mail fairly quickly.
Joseph Tam jtam.home@gmail.com
On Sep 25, 2019, at 4:20 PM, Joseph Tam jtam.home@gmail.com wrote:
you can mulch through mail fairly quickly.
Now there is a good image!
I’m probably going to steal that. Mulch is a word that need more use.
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Not defending Thunderbird - but I don't understand your "taking hours to load my Dovecot IMAP". I suppose if you have sync enabled then the first time you connect to a large mailstore there would be an initial download. But...I always disable sync immediately upon setting up accounts in Thunderbird so that's never been an issue for me.
Being unable to prevent downloads or utilize server-side searches is why some other clients have been disappointing for me - like EM Client and Mailbird.
Daniel
On 9/23/2019 5:36 PM, Steve Litt via dovecot wrote:
Thunderbird is an absolute pig, taking hours to load my Dovecot IMAP. Claws-mail is good, but I have some problems with it. Alpine appears not to be ready for prime time to act as a window into IMAP. Same with the rest I've tried.
SteveT
On Tue, 24 Sep 2019 00:21:33 +0200 Ionel Spanachi ionel.spanachi@hfg-karlsruhe.de wrote:
Why not use thunderbird (or any other IMAP talking client)? :-)
Ionel
On 24.09.19 00:14, Steve Litt via dovecot wrote:
Hi all,
I could really use a file manager or browser to browse my Dovecot IMAP. Ideally it would have hotkeys to move, copy, delete and send. The send part needn't be coded: Just a call to a shellscript which can handle the send the way it's locally the most convenient.
Anyone know of such a file manager or browser for IMAP?
SteveT
Steve Litt Author: The Key to Everyday Excellence http://www.troubleshooters.com/key Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt
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On Mon, 2019-09-23 at 18:14 -0400, Steve Litt via dovecot wrote:
I could really use a file manager or browser to browse my Dovecot IMAP. Ideally it would have hotkeys to move, copy, delete and send. The send part needn't be coded: Just a call to a shellscript which can handle the send the way it's locally the most convenient.
Anyone know of such a file manager or browser for IMAP?
For *nix machines from CLI you can use Alpine or Mutt. From a GUI there are plenty to choose from - I use Evolution, but Thunderbird, KMail, Claws Mail, Balsa (I could go on and on, there are dozens) are all usable. With larger mail stores you probably only want to do a full sync of every message in the mail store, just the folders and message headers should be enough, make sure you take the time to configure the MUA properly. Mostly the choice of desktop MUA is down to user preference for things like "look and feel", threading behaviour. Most MUA's don't have support for sieve/managesieve, and I did once get caught out trying to use the Claws managesieve interface ... apparently it can't handle nested match configurations and my sieve script is heavily nested to reduce match time for lists and other things. I would recommend trying a few and seeing what works for you. My personal preference is Evolution, because it has decent threading and supports my caldav/carddav server out of the box (It's basically a dropin replacement for what MS Outlook does on Windows machines).
Another option is a webmail interface - I use Roundcube, but Horde is another php based one, there is perl webmail interface called CiderWebmail. Running a webmail interface on the same machine as the dovecot instance makes it quick and responsive. Again the choice comes down to what features you want, and what you a willing to run on the server.
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Aki Tuomi
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Andrew Bernard
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Daniel Miller
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Dave McGuire
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Ionel Spanachi
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Joseph Tam
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Roger Klorese
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