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Re: Himalaya: CLI to Manage Emails

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Genuine question - the HN title says "CLI to..." but looking at the GitHub repo I don't see any CLI-centric documentation. I do see $ himalaya envelope list --account posteo --folder Archives.FOSS --page 2 and a screenshot that looks like PINE. Is that screenshot interactive (like PINE) or does himalaya print that out and then the process exits? I guess my question is: is this different than PINE (or any other termin…

The built release packages have full set of man-pages for you to familiarize with.

Re: Himalaya: CLI to Manage Emails

#76
post #74

Genuine question - the HN title says "CLI to..." but looking at the GitHub repo I don't see any CLI-centric documentation. I do see $ himalaya envelope list --account posteo --folder Archives.FOSS --page 2 and a screenshot that looks like PINE. Is that screenshot interactive (like PINE) or does himalaya print that out and then the process exits? I guess my question is: is this different than PINE (or any other termin…

The built release packages have full set of man-pages for you to familiarize with.

https://man.archlinux.org/man/himalaya.1.en

Re: Himalaya: CLI to Manage Emails

#77
post #75

Q: Can I use this if I work at a Microsoft Teams enterprise org? Probably not, I'm guessing, but hoping there's a way to make that work somehow.

Do you mean Microsoft 365 for Enterprise? Teams is the chat app.

Thunderbird can sync with Microsoft 365 for Enterprise mail servers and can be configured to store email in a maildir format. So you could use Himalaya to read emails that Thunderbird synced, but you can't manipulate Thunderbirds maildir.

Re: Himalaya: CLI to Manage Emails

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post #75

Q: Can I use this if I work at a Microsoft Teams enterprise org? Probably not, I'm guessing, but hoping there's a way to make that work somehow.

Depends, likely not as Microsoft strongly recommends disabling IMAPv4 and POP3 access to mailboxes in 365 and I think it's now the default. Most company policies do not allow it to be enabled outside service mailboxes.

Re: Himalaya: CLI to Manage Emails

#80
This looks like it's a "real" CLI instead of a curses thing (TUI?). That's really exciting for me. I strongly prefer tools that can be composed as a standard shell pipeline.

Edit: That is indeed exactly what this is. It's wonderful :)

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