Re: Mutt automation?

[Robert Threet <rthreet@yahoo.com>]

Really?  I thought from the looks of the command line options you
could do something like 

     mutt -nz ~s UPDATE > file.txt

But, of course, that doesn't work.

--- Gary <gary-list-silug@mygirlfriday.info> wrote:
> On Wed, May 21, 2003 at 09:04:32AM -0700 or thereabouts, Robert
> Threet wrote:
> > I don't use Mutt, but I know most of you guys do.  I was
> wondering if
> > someone knew how to use Mutt from a script to grab a specific
> message
> > each day (e.g. Subject: Snippet) and grab either the message body
> or
> > an attachment and save it to a file.
> 
> Mutt is a MUA Robert, it does nothing except read mail... what you
> need is
> a MDA (mail delivery agent) like procmail or maildrop, (procmail is
> more
> popular),  These have recipes, to do whatever you want, and
> certainly what
> you want can be done easily.  You would need a fetchmail (a program
> to pop
> your mail off your ISP server), which hands it off to procmail,
> which
> filters all incoming mail to various mailboxes, or other criteria
> you make
> in your procmail recipes. 
> 
> -- 
> Gary
> 
> Why don't sheep shrink when it rains?
> 
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