Yes sorry maildir maildrop is something for rules using in qmail.

Remo

On Jul 18, 2022, at 9:01 PM, Steve Litt slitt@troubleshooters.com wrote:

Remo Mattei said on Mon, 18 Jul 2022 20:51:16 -0700

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Are you using maildrop or flat files In your config?

Thanks Remo,

If by "maildrop" you mean "maildir", I'm using maildir. Otherwise, I don't know what maildrop is.

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If you are using maildrop where there is a file for each file then you could use free into the folder new

My Dovecot setup uses maildir and there's definitely one file per message. When I type "free" at my Linux command line it just lists statistics about memory. The doveadm man page doesn't list a command called "free". So I'm not sure what "free into the new folder" means.

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but I do not know what config you have check tre command and see if that does some of what you want.

Thanks,

SteveT

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Il giorno 18 lug 2022, alle ore 20:20, Steve Litt slitt@troubleshooters.com ha scritto:

Hi all,

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?

Thanks,

SteveT

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On Tue, 2022-07-19 at 16:33 +1200, Peter wrote:

On 19/07/22 3:18 pm, Steve Litt wrote:

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Is there any way I could use doveadm or other tools to create a report that shows all my folders in a hierarchy?

See doveadm(1) and doveadm-mailbox(1), specifically the doveadm mailbox list command.

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Also, is there a way to show only those with new mail?

Look at doveadm-search(1) and doveadm-search-query(7) for this.

You can loop through the list of mailboxes from doveadm mailbox list and pass them one at a time to doveadm search NEW MAILBOX mailboxname to see if any messages are returned from the search.

Thanks Peter. I'll look into everything you mentioned in the next few days.

SteveT

On Tue, 2022-07-19 at 09:19 +0300, Aki Tuomi wrote:

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doveadm -fjson mailbox status -u user unseen "*"

As promised, the following is the Python 3 script to take advantage of your command by printing out the mailbox name and number of unseen for each folder that has some unseen messages:

=========================================== #!/usr/bin/python3

import json; import subprocess;

def main(): cmd='doveadm -fjson mailbox status -u slitt unseen "*"' sp=subprocess.Popen(cmd,shell=True, stdout=subprocess.PIPE) rc=sp.wait() print('\n\n\n\n') jstrng,junk=sp.communicate() jsn=json.loads(jstrng) newboxes={} for rec in jsn: if rec['unseen'] != "0": unseen=rec['unseen'] mailbox=rec['mailbox'] newboxes[mailbox] = unseen for key in sorted(newboxes.keys(), key=str.lower): print("{}: {} unread.".format(key, newboxes[key]))

if __name__ == '__main__': main()

My 20 minutes of testing indicate this is not always accurate and must not be relied on without backup methods, but I'm going to be using it until I find something better.

Thanks,

Steve