mailhelp
mail help config and dot files for mutt with Gmail on macOS (mbsync, fdm, msmtp). (by elobdog)
fdm
fdm source code (by nicm)
| mailhelp | fdm | |
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| 3 | 4 | |
| 38 | 265 | |
| - | - | |
| 5.1 | 2.5 | |
| over 3 years ago | about 2 months ago | |
| Shell | C | |
| BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License | - |
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mailhelp
Posts with mentions or reviews of mailhelp.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-02-27.
- elobdog/mailhelp: mail help config and dot files for mutt with Gmail on macOS (mbsync, fdm, msmtp).
- Mailhelp: Config and dot files for mutt with Gmail on macOS (mbsync, fdm, msmtp)
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Setting up fdm
Less secure apps as previous response. Some more information here: https://github.com/elobdog/mailhelp
fdm
Posts with mentions or reviews of fdm.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-05-15.
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IMSErious: Execute commands in response to Dovecot email push notifications
I wrote this to execute fdm on new messages, so my VPS can deliver email to its own local Dovecot instance and my home machine can fetch them with minimal delay - without otherwise being tightly coupled to my external email setup.
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Email archiving and searching options
When I switched from GMail’s web client to a local client, I used fdm over POP to send everything to a local maildir. Then I set up a cronjob that calls fdm every five minutes (again, over POP) to check for new mail. Bear in mind that depending on your GMail settings, GMail’s copies of emails can be auto‐deleted upon POP download. If you still want to access email through the web or IMAP, make sure that’s set properly.
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Setting up fdm
This actually seems to have maybe changed quite recently, however this mechanism seems inconvenient for users to use, requiring additional scripting (meaning, shelling out to a command), continually generate a new access token to use with fdm, on a per-account basis, hourly. Yuck.
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Python3 equivalents of OfflineIMAP?
I came across fdm, which is fast, lightweight, and simple to configure. It fetches mail. That's it. The config is literally a couple of lines for a single mailbox.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing mailhelp and fdm you can also consider the following projects:
gmail-oauth2-tools - Tools and sample code for authenticating to Gmail with OAuth2
mutt-office365 - A mutt configuration file ready for Office 365
offlineimap - Read/sync your IMAP mailboxes (python2) [LEGACY: move to offlineimap3]
trust - Travis CI and AppVeyor template to test your Rust crate on 5 architectures and publish binary releases of it for Linux, macOS and Windows
offlineimap3 - Read/sync your IMAP mailboxes (python3)
IMSErious - Execute commands in response to Dovecot's Internet Message Store Event notifications