parse Maildir e-mail

Nils Kassube kassube at gmx.net
Tue Nov 20 05:59:36 UTC 2012


thufir wrote:
> I want to parse Maildir e-mail with Java, or maybe Ruby.  However,
> I'm not totally clear on where the mail is.

> thufir at dur:~$ ll Maildir/

I don't know what alias you are using for "ll", but it doesn't seem to 
list recursively. Your mail is usually in a folder "new" or "cur". Try 
the command

find Maildir -type f

It will list some other files as well but it should find where your 
mails are.


Nils




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