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Commands tagged mutt

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recoll -t -q "keyword" | grep message/rfc822 | sed -s 's,^.*\('$MAILDIR'[^]]*\)\].*$,\"\1\",' | xargs ln -sft $MAILDIR/bingo/cur/
2011-12-09 17:22:51
User: s5unty
Functions: grep ln sed xargs
Tags: mail mutt Maildir search mu cjk recoll
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full text(CJK) search mails and link the result to $MAILDIR/bingo/cur/
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split -b4m file.tgz file.tgz. ; for i in file.tgz.*; do SUBJ="Backup Archive"; MSG="Archive File Attached"; echo $MSG | mutt -a $i -s $SUBJ YourEmail@(E)mail.com
2010-03-20 16:49:19
User: tboulay
Functions: echo split
Tags: backup email split archive mutt
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Split a file into equal size chunks and archive to (e)mail account.

This is just a little snippit to split a large file into smaller chunks (4mb in this example) and then send the chunks off to (e)mail for archival using mutt.

I usually encrypt the file before splitting it using openssl:

openssl des3 -salt -k <password> -in file.tgz -out file.tgz.des3

To restore, simply save attachments and rejoin them using:

cat file.tgz.* > output_name.tgz

and if encrypted, decrypt using:

openssl des3 -d -salt -k <password> -in file.tgz.des3 -out file.tgz

edit: (changed "g" to "e" for political correctness)

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(svnadmin dump /path/to/repo | gzip --best > /tmp/svn-backup.gz) 2>&1 | mutt -s "SVN backup `date +\%m/\%d/\%Y`" -a /tmp/svn-backup.gz emailaddress
2010-03-08 05:49:01
User: max
Functions: dump gzip
Tags: svn backup email mutt
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Email an svn dump

Dumps a compressed svn backup to a file, and emails the files along with any messages as the body of the email

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mpack -s "Backup: $file" "$file" email@id.com
2009-12-11 04:03:06
User: sentinel
Tags: mutt
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Send a local file via email

Another way of sending an attachment.

-s : subject

file : file to be sent

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mutt your@email_address.com -s "Message Subject Here" -a attachment.jpg </dev/null
2009-12-10 22:49:38
User: linuxrawkstar
Tags: mutt
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Send a local file via email

Send it the easy way, with MIME and everything handled for you by an app that knows best.

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find ~/Maildir/ -mindepth 1 -type d | egrep -v '/cur$|/tmp$|/new$' | xargs
2009-11-05 14:11:29
User: ook
Functions: egrep find
Tags: mutt Maildir mailboxes
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Build an exhaustive list of maildir folders for mutt

Of course, you can adjust "Maildir" to your config...

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echo "Body goes here" | mutt -s "A subject" -a /path/to/file.tar.gz recipient@example.com
2009-08-05 23:06:25
User: ketil
Functions: echo
Tags: email mail attachment attachments mutt
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Send email with one or more binary attachments

This command uses mutt to send the mail. You must pipe in a body, otherwise mutt will prompt you for some stuff. If you don't have mutt, it should be dead easy to install.

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