cs.app.mailfiler 20190512

email message filing system which monitors multiple inbound Maildir folders

Mailfiler is my email message filing system.

It monitors multiple Maildir folders for new messages and files them according to various easy to write rules. Its use is described fully in the mailfiler(1cs) manual entry.

The rules files are broadly quite simple and described fully in the mailfiler(5cs) manual entry. The rules are normally single line rules of the form:

target,... label condition

If the rule should always fire then the condition may be omitted.

The targets may be mail folders (file the message in the named folder), assignment statements (set an environment variable), email addresses (send the message to the specified address) or some other special purpose actions.

The conditions are usually tests of the header email addresses including whether an address is a member of some group/alias but may also test various other things about the message headers.

Class Condition_AddressMatch

MRO: _Condition, cs.obj.O
A condition testing for the presence of an address.

Class Condition_HeaderFunction

MRO: _Condition, cs.obj.O
A condition testing the contents of a header.

Class Condition_InGroups

MRO: _Condition, cs.obj.O
A condition testing messages addresses against address groups.

Class Condition_Regexp

MRO: _Condition, cs.obj.O
A condition testing headers against a regular expression.

Function current_value(envvar, cfg, cfg_key, default, environ)

Compute a configurable path value on the fly.

Function FilterReport(rule, matched, saved_to, ok_actions, failed_actions)

Create a FilterReport object.

Parameters:

• rule: the Rule on which to report
• matched: whether the rule was matched
• saved_to: where messages were filed
• ok_actions: actions which succeeded
• failed_actions: actions which failed

Function get_target(s, offset, quoted=False)

Parse a single target specification from a string; return Target and new offset.

Parameters:

• s: the string to parse
• offset: the starting offset of the parse
• quoted: if true then the parser is already inside quotes: do not expect comma or whitespace to end the target specification. Default: False

Function get_targets(s, offset)

Parse list of targets from the string s starting at offset. Return the list of Targets strings and the new offset.

Function maildir_from_name(mdirname, maildir_root, maildir_cache)

Return the Maildir derived from mdirpath.

Class MailFiler

MRO: cs.obj.O
A mail filer.

Function main(argv=None, stdin=None)

Mailfiler main programme.

Class MessageFiler

MRO: cs.obj.O
A message filing object, filtering state information used during rule evaluation.

Attributes:

• .maildb: Current MailDB.
• .environ: Storage for variable settings.
• .addresses(header): Caching list of addresses from specified header.

Function parserules(fp)

Read rules from fp, yield Rules.

Function resolve_mail_path(mdirpath, maildir_root)

Return the full path to the requested mail folder.

Class Rule

MRO: cs.obj.O
A filing rule.

Class Rules

MRO: builtins.list
Simple subclass of list storing rules, with methods to load rules and filter a message using the rules.

Function save_to_folderpath(folderpath, M, message_path, flags)

Save the Message M to the resolved folderpath.

Parameters:

• folderpath: the path to the target mail folder.
• M: the message to save.
• message_path: pathname of existing message file, allowing hardlinking to new maildir if not None.
• flags: save flags as from MessageFiler.flags

Function scrub_header(value)

"Scrub" a header value. Presently this means to undo RFC2047 encoding where possible.

Class Target_Assign

MRO: cs.obj.O
A filing target to set a filing state environment variable.

Class Target_EnvSub

MRO: cs.obj.O
A filing target to delivery to a string which is subject to environment subject to environment variable expansion where the environment variables are derived from the filing state.

Class Target_Function

MRO: cs.obj.O
A filing target to run a Python function against a message.

Class Target_MailAddress

MRO: cs.obj.O
A filing target for an email address.

Class Target_MailFolder

MRO: cs.obj.O
A filing target for a mail folder.

Class Target_PipeLine

MRO: cs.obj.O
A filing target to pipe the message contents to a shell command.

Class Target_SetFlag

MRO: cs.obj.O
A filing target to apply a flag to a message.

Class Target_Substitution

MRO: cs.obj.O
A filing target to apply a regular expression string substitution to message headers.

Class WatchedMaildir

MRO: cs.obj.O
A class to monitor a Maildir and filter messages.