📧 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

🛠️ 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.

pschmitt / myl