On Mon, Feb 16, 2015, Nux! wrote: >http://sourceforge.net/projects/imaputils/files/ ? > >I guess you'll at least need to download and parse the email headers. I do this sort of thing with Python and its 'imaplib' Something like this will return a list of all unseen messages in the security folder where Subject contains 'Sec-Blocked'. import imaplib conn = imaplib.IMAP4('example.com') c, d = conn.login('username', 'password') c, n = conn.select('INBOX.security') c, s = conn.uid('search', None, '(UNSEEN HEADER SUBJECT Sec-Blocked)') msgnumbers = s[0].split() unseenUIDs = set(msgnumbers) # using set for later manipulations for uid in sorted(unseenUIDs) # do something for each uid # done >HTH >Lucian > >-- >Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! > >Nux! >www.nux.ro > >----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Tim Evans" <tkevans at tkevans.com> >> To: "CentOS mailing list" <centos at centos.org> >> Sent: Monday, 16 February, 2015 18:50:31 >> Subject: [CentOS] OT: Extracting Subject Lines from IMAP Mailbox > >> Looking for a command-line way to extract only the Subject lines from my >> mailbox on my ISP's IMAP server, without actually downloading/modifying >> the contents of the mailbox. Sort of the remote equivalent of locally >> doing: >> >> $ grep ^Subject /var/spool/mail/mymailbox > subjectlistfile >> >> Thanks. >> -- >> Tim Evans | 5 Chestnut Court >> UNIX System Admin Consulting | Owings Mills, MD 21117 >> http://www.tkevans.com/ | 443-394-3864 >> tkevans at tkevans.com >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS mailing list >> CentOS at centos.org >> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >_______________________________________________ >CentOS mailing list >CentOS at centos.org >http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- Bill -- INTERNET: bill at celestial.com Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way Voice: (206) 236-1676 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820 Fax: (206) 232-9186 Skype: jwccsllc (206) 855-5792 politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds. -- Henry Adams