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| Accessing Mail contents via terminal My Mac at work is permanently connected to the network and I generally leave Mail.app open. If I ssh into my Mac from elsewhere, is there a terminal based way to access the mail that Mail.app has pulled off the server? It would be nice if it had a semi-decent interface like elm or pine but even being able to read it would be handy. It would even be more useful I could delete mail without upsetting Mail.app. Cheers, Duncan. To reply, you'll need to remove finger.      |
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| Re: Accessing Mail contents via terminal Duncan Farrow wrote: > My Mac at work is permanently connected to the network and > I generally leave Mail.app open. > > If I ssh into my Mac from elsewhere, is there a terminal based > way to access the mail that Mail.app has pulled off the server? > It would be nice if it had a semi-decent interface like elm or > pine but even being able to read it would be handy. It would even > be more useful I could delete mail without upsetting Mail.app. > > Cheers, > Duncan. > > To reply, you'll need to remove finger. I should have said, I'm running 10.4.2....whoops. |
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| Re: Accessing Mail contents via terminal Duncan Farrow wrote: > My Mac at work is permanently connected to the network and > I generally leave Mail.app open. > > If I ssh into my Mac from elsewhere, is there a terminal based > way to access the mail that Mail.app has pulled off the server? > It would be nice if it had a semi-decent interface like elm or > pine but even being able to read it would be handy. It would even > be more useful I could delete mail without upsetting Mail.app. > > Cheers, > Duncan. > > To reply, you'll need to remove finger. I should have said, I'm running 10.4.2....whoops. |
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| Re: Accessing Mail contents via terminal In article <43008d42$1_1@news.iprimus.com.au>, Duncan Farrow <duncanfarrow@finger.iprimus.com.au> wrote: > My Mac at work is permanently connected to the network and > I generally leave Mail.app open. > > If I ssh into my Mac from elsewhere, is there a terminal based > way to access the mail that Mail.app has pulled off the server? > It would be nice if it had a semi-decent interface like elm or > pine but even being able to read it would be handy. It would even > be more useful I could delete mail without upsetting Mail.app. > > Cheers, > Duncan. > > To reply, you'll need to remove finger. The mail files are at $HOME/Library/Mail/POP...account...mbox/INBOX.mbox/mbox $HOME/Library/Mail/Mailboxes/.folder...name...mbox/mbox Then run the command mail -f $HOME/Library/Mail/POP...account...mbox/INBOX.mbox/mbox To read your newmail. If you have multiple mail accounts, then repeat once for each separate mail account. Your folders would be in the .../Mailboxes/... path. For more information about 'mail' command see man mail You could look at any number of other text based mail utilities, such as 'pine' or 'mutt'. Bob Harris |
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| Re: Accessing Mail contents via terminal In article <43008d42$1_1@news.iprimus.com.au>, Duncan Farrow <duncanfarrow@finger.iprimus.com.au> wrote: > My Mac at work is permanently connected to the network and > I generally leave Mail.app open. > > If I ssh into my Mac from elsewhere, is there a terminal based > way to access the mail that Mail.app has pulled off the server? > It would be nice if it had a semi-decent interface like elm or > pine but even being able to read it would be handy. It would even > be more useful I could delete mail without upsetting Mail.app. > > Cheers, > Duncan. > > To reply, you'll need to remove finger. The mail files are at $HOME/Library/Mail/POP...account...mbox/INBOX.mbox/mbox $HOME/Library/Mail/Mailboxes/.folder...name...mbox/mbox Then run the command mail -f $HOME/Library/Mail/POP...account...mbox/INBOX.mbox/mbox To read your newmail. If you have multiple mail accounts, then repeat once for each separate mail account. Your folders would be in the .../Mailboxes/... path. For more information about 'mail' command see man mail You could look at any number of other text based mail utilities, such as 'pine' or 'mutt'. Bob Harris |
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