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

Remo Mattei Remo at rm.ht
Tue Jul 19 04:23:37 UTC 2022


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

Remo 

> On Jul 18, 2022, at 9:01 PM, Steve Litt <slitt at troubleshooters.com> wrote:
> 
> Remo Mattei said on Mon, 18 Jul 2022 20:51:16 -0700
> 
>> 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.
> 
>> 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.
> 
>> but I do not know what config you have check tre
>> command and see if that does some of what you want. 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> SteveT
>> 
>>> Il giorno 18 lug 2022, alle ore 20:20, Steve Litt
>>> <slitt at 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
>>> 
>>> Steve Litt 
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>> 



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