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IMAP mail filtering utility

16 mentions on Hacker News by 14 people: 0 stories, 16 comments · first 2015-08-18 · latest 2025-07-03

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  1. I use imapfilter: https://github.com/lefcha/imapfilter
  2. …so convenient now it can handle hundreds of mails over several mail accounts fully automated. 1: https://github.com/lefcha/imapfilter 2: https://github.com/rafo/aerc-vim
    comment by Ringz · 2025-01-18 · in I deleted all of my email filters
  3. …could monitor your email and process the notifications. A good tool for that is imapfilter [1]. [1] https://github.com/lefcha/imapfilter
  4. You don't need an e-mail program for this if you are ready to work with Imapfilter: https://github.com/lefcha/imapfilter
  5. …as the password: https://github.com/google/gmail-oauth2-tools/blob/master/pyt... (see for example https://github.com/lefcha/imapfilter/issues/186 )
  6. My first real exposure to Lua was as the configuration language of imapfilter. Absolutely loved both. https://github.com/lefcha/imapfilter
    comment by sincarne · 2023-05-29 · in Lua: The Little Language That Could
  7. …your house), to auto sort alerts or notices of nominal condition into certain folders/subfolders. https://github.com/lefcha/imapfilter
    comment by walrus01 · 2021-05-06 · in DIY Boat Monitoring System
  8. …the heavy IMAP stuff, calling node via tcp and using the response to sort based on it. [0]: https://github.com/lefcha/imapfilter
  9. Yup - https://github.com/lefcha/imapfilter "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…
  10. I can recommend https://github.com/lefcha/imapfilter . I have it running in a private serving, filtering the emails for me..
    comment by pelasaco · 2020-08-16 · in Mutt email client 25 years old
  11. …for years with plain old IMAP rules, so I'd like to know if there's anything I'm missing. [1]: https://github.com/lefcha/imapfilter
  12. If you're looking to consolidate your email the best way is imapfilter https://github.com/lefcha/imapfilter I use this LUA script (this is the Jinja2 template so obviously you'll need to substitute the portions in {{ }} with your real…
    comment by dngray · 2019-07-08 · in Meli email client, pre-alpha release
  13. Wouldn't using something like https://github.com/lefcha/imapfilter also be an option? It would be awesome if some day there was a "jmapfilter". I think JMAP would be really efficient for this use case.
    comment by tya99 · 2019-01-26 · in JMAP: Like IMAP but Not Really
  14. …[1] would work. It also uses regexes so it would be easy to convert mike-cardwell's rules. [1]: https://github.com/lefcha/imapfilter
    comment by l-p · 2017-09-12 · in Facebook, You Needy Sonofabitch
  15. …system. That works, but you have to program a bit lua in order to setup imapfilter correctly. [0] https://github.com/lefcha/imapfilter
  16. I think that IMAP-serverside filtering is possible: https://github.com/lefcha/imapfilter I haven't really looked into exactly what it's doing though (and I'm no expert on the IMAP spec).
    comment by pyre · 2015-08-18 · in Google Hangouts