1 imapami: your best IMAP friend
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4 Imapami is a tool that connects to an IMAP server and process the mails.
5 It can usually replace the filters of your mail client or webmail, and
6 provide more advanced features.
10 - move or copy mails into a directory, depending on its header or
12 - pipe mails to a local program
13 - archive old mails into a directory
14 - flag or modify messages
19 Run ``imapami --help`` for a list of command line options.
21 Some configuration samples can be found in the ``config-samples``
22 directory. Run ``imapami --config-help`` for a documentation about the
28 - Imapami has a powerful configuration file in YAML:
30 - easily understandable.
31 - you can edit it without using your mouse :)
32 - rules can be generated by an external tool.
34 - It is easily extendable in python to add specific checks or actions:
36 - imapami can be used as a lib.
38 - It runs outside of your mail client:
40 - your mail filters do not depend on your mail client or on your
41 webmail provider anymore.
46 - compared to procmail which can be run each time a mail is received,
47 imapami needs to be launched periodically, for instance in a crontab.