NAME¶
imapfilter
—
mail filter
SYNOPSIS¶
imapfilter |
[ -iVv ]
[-c
configfile ]
[-d
debugfile ]
[-e
'command' ]
[-l
logfile ] |
DESCRIPTION¶
imapfilter
is a mail filtering utility. It
connects to remote mail servers using the Internet Message Access Protocol
(IMAP), sends searching queries to the server and processes mailboxes based on
the results. It can be used to delete, copy, move, flag, etc. messages
residing in mailboxes at the same or different mail servers. The 4rev1 and 4
versions of the IMAP protocol are supported.
The command line options of
imapfilter(1) are as
follows:
-c
configfile
- Path to the configuration file. The default is
$HOME/.imapfilter/config.lua.
-d
debugfile
- File that contains debugging information about the full communication with
the server, along with other inner workings' details.
-e
'command'
- May be used to enter “one line” of configuration, while it
is also possible to pipe a full configuration as a string. When this
options is used, a configuration file will not be loaded.
-i
- Enters interactive mode after executing the configuration file.
-l
logfile
- File that contains logs of error messages produced.
-V
- Displays version and copyright information.
-v
- Enables printing of some brief details of the communication with the
server.
ENVIRONMENT¶
HOME
- User's home directory.
FILES¶
- $HOME/.imapfilter/config.lua
- Default configuration file. Because this file may contain sensitive data
such as user passwords, the recommended permissions are read/write for the
user, and not accessible by others.
- $HOME/.imapfilter/certificates
- File where the SSL/TLS certificates are stored.
SEE ALSO¶
imapfilter_config(5)
- IMAP4rev1:
- RFC 3501, RFC 3348, RFC 2683, RFC 2595, RFC 2342, RFC 2195, RFC 2177
- IMAP4:
- RFC 1730