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Jason P.

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Registered: 2015-02-26

Posts: 171

Claws mail with another program to fetch email

Hi, I'm an Arch Linux user since a few weeks ago So, excuse me if I'm posting this question in the wrong place.

So far so good, but today I've installed Claws mail and noticed that it lacks support for basic IMAP notification, i.e. push email. Fiddling with the options I've found that Claws can delegate the email fetching to another application and be a mere frontend.

So, would it be possible to install a minimal email client (ideally with no GUI at all) with full IMAP support that cooperates with Claws? I know, I could even install Evolution or Thunderbird, but I'm trying the non obvious way

Many thanks!

ewigkeit

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Registered: 2009-01-06

Posts: 53

Re: Claws mail with another program to fetch email

Hi Jason,

I had a similar problem with Claws and fell back to using Thunderbird a while ago, but notifications won't always trigger.

Thanks to your post, I searched again and found Mailnag. It doesn't integrate in Claws but instead runs in the background and informs you when new mail arrives. One can also define to use own scripts on arrival, which makes a reliable notification solution for me.

brebs

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Registered: 2007-04-03

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Re: Claws mail with another program to fetch email

Here's the relevant claws-mail bug report.

Jason P.

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Registered: 2015-02-26

Posts: 171

Re: Claws mail with another program to fetch email

Thanks ewigkeit for bringing up Mailnag into the conversation

Can it move emails to folders based on filtering rules? To not lose this feature I consider critical, I was thinking if this scenario could be possible:

Mailnag monitors the inbox folders of two IMAP accounts > When new email arrives it executes the command claws-mail --receive name-of-account > Claws Mail do all its stuff, including filters, pre and post processing and the like.

If it's not possible in Mailnag execute different commands for each account, we could go with claws-mail --receive-all. In fact, Claws is apparently ignoring the name passed as argument and fetches email for each and every account. Maybe because of a problem parsing names like mail@example.com. I'm not sure...

Trilby

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Registered: 2011-11-29

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Re: Claws mail with another program to fetch email

You might want to check out offlineimap.  It can do everything you are describing.  You could then just use claws to read to local maildir.

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