📧 myl
myl is a dead simple IMAP CLI client hosted on GitHub at https://github.com/pschmitt/myl
📝 Description
myl is a command-line interface client for IMAP, designed to provide a straightforward way to interact with IMAP servers.
⭐ Features
- Simple command-line interface
- Support for various IMAP operations
- Autodiscovery of the required server and port
- Support for Google IMAP settings
- Fetch a specific number of messages
- Mark messages as seen
- Fetch messages from a specific folder
- Search for specific strings in messages
- Output HTML email
- Output raw email
- Fetch a specific mail by ID
- Fetch a specific attachment
🚀 Installation
To install myl, follow these steps:
pipx install myl
# or:
pip install --user myl
on nix you can do this:
nix run github:pschmitt/myl -- --help
🛠️ Usage
Here's how you can use myl:
myl --help
This command will display the help information for the myl command.
Here are some examples of using flags with the myl command:
# Connect to an IMAP server
myl --server imap.example.com --port 143 --starttls --username "$username" --password "$password"
# Use Google IMAP settings
myl --google --username "$username" --password "$password"
# Autodiscovery of the required server and port
myl --auto --username "$username" --password "$password"
# We won't repeat the server connection flags from here
alias myl="command myl --auto --username \"$username\" --password \"$password\""
# Fetch a specific number of messages
myl --count 5
# Mark messages as seen
myl --mark-seen
# Fetch messages from a specific folder
myl --folder "INBOX"
# Search for specific strings in messages
myl --search "important"
# Fetch a specific mail ID
myl "$MAILID"
# Show HTML
myl --html "$MAILID"
# raw email
myl --raw "$MAILID" > email.eml
# Fetch a specific attachment (outputs to stdout)
myl "$MAILID" "$ATT" > att.txt
Please replace imap.example.com, $username, $password, $MAILID,
and $ATT with your actual IMAP server details, username, password,
mail ID, and attachment name.
📜 License
This project is licensed under the GPL-3.0 license.
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