I'm trying to retrieve my mail from command line, and they use mu4e to read them. However, it turns out to be a nightmare to find a program that can do the following stuff:
- downloads the mail from an IMAP server into a maildir folder
- uses SSL/TLS when the server provide it
- can deal with IMAP IDLE in order to avoid dirty loop to get the messages, if possible efficiently
- provides a way to get the password from a GPG encrypted file for security reason (I don't want to need to trust the people that can get physical access to the computer)
- can deal with several accounts in parallel, if possible with just one execution to save ressources
Bonus:
- efficient (I would like to avoid to install a full IMAP server)
- reliable
- still maintained
- simple to configure
- packaged into regular linux distributions, as well as nix
I tried lots of solutions, but it seems that none of them can deal with these tasks...
- offlineimap : officially has beta for IDLE, but I was not able to configure it to use it (bug or maybe I just missed something important...), offlineimap just stop after one scan even with the idle options. Moreover, it seems to be quite slow and buggy according to the community
- mbsync : no IDLE
- mbsync + mswatch : need to have access on the server, so not possible
- mbsync + imapnotify : maybe the best solution so far... but imapnotify is not packaged in debian and nix
- imapsync : does not deal with mailbox format
- fetchmail : cannot deal with PGP encrypted password
Any solution?
