need simple command line utility to read imap or pop3 mail unattended

[Mike Marchywka]

On Thu, May 07, 2020 at 10:06:19PM +0200, Liam Proven wrote:
> On Thu, 7 May 2020 at 22:02, Mike Marchywka <marchywka at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> >  but on a quick look I could not find out how
> > read mail ( hotmail, yahoo, gmail, , etc)
> 
> Do you mean webmail providers?
> 
> Most of 'em now offer POP3 and IMAP access too. You often have to
> manually turn it on in each account though.
> 
> Google for the server settings, they're all out there in multiple places.
> 
> Or have I misunderstood?

I thought I said I have been using mutt and neomutt as previously 
recommended but it was not obvious they have a good way to
read mail with a script. It looked like I had to start
a UI. What I need is something I can easily script to read
messages and copy them to a file or input to a bash script.

There may be something like an email command processor package
that accepts email from IMAP or POP3 already but I just
need it to read- ideally it would use the mutt or neomutt
config file but I can copy the info easily :)

I made my own download code to backup the webmail accounts
which I could easily modify but I'm doing all my work on
Beaver and want this to run on 12.04  ( whatever that is called ).
 I copied over my last build and ldd laughed, copying the
so's and setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH killed scp and ls lol.


I might just need fetchmail or getmail or something but
if there is a mail command package that may be nice too.
You see this a lot now, interacting via email, not sure
what is out there for that.



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