[9fans] delete mail from mailfs via script

[9fans] delete mail from mailfs via script

[Matthias Teege]

Moin,

I read my email with p9ps acme and mailfs and searching  for
a  possibility to delete mails via script. Would be nice if I can
"blacklist" some threads. There are a "ctl" and a "search" file in the
mbox but I don't know exactly how to use both.

How can I delete email from mailfs with a script?

Many thanks
Matthias

Re: [9fans] delete mail from mailfs via script

[Russ Cox]

> I read my email with p9ps acme and mailfs and searching  for
> a  possibility to delete mails via script. Would be nice if I can
> "blacklist" some threads. There are a "ctl" and a "search" file in the
> mbox but I don't know exactly how to use both.

The search file is unused (but implemented).
The idea is you write a search string
and read back a list of message ids.

The ctl file allows bulk deletion - you write
  delete 1 2 3 4 5
and it deletes the messages with those ids.

Russ

Re: [9fans] delete mail from mailfs via script

[erik quanstrom]

pedantic note.

the search file is a p9p-only thing.  it is
not available on the plan 9 upas/fs.

- erik

> The search file is unused (but implemented).
> The idea is you write a search string
> and read back a list of message ids.
> 
> The ctl file allows bulk deletion - you write
>   delete 1 2 3 4 5
> and it deletes the messages with those ids.
> 
> Russ

Re: [9fans] delete mail from mailfs via script

[Enrico Weigelt]

Hi folks,

is there any paper on mailfs ? 
I'd like to know how it works - maybe its suited to be used
in cross-platform MUAs too.

cu
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Re: [9fans] delete mail from mailfs via script

[Russ Cox]

> is there any paper on mailfs ? 
> I'd like to know how it works - maybe its suited to be used
> in cross-platform MUAs too.

Nope, just the source.  
http://swtch.com/usr/local/plan9/src/cmd/upas/nfs
It is IMAP-only right now and depends on factotum.

Mailfs is inspired by Plan 9's upas/fs, which is at
http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sources/plan9/sys/src/cmd/upas/fs/
and documented at
http://plan9.bell-labs.com/magic/man2html/4/upasfs

There are differences between the two interfaces but they
are pretty minor.  The implementations are very different
(mailfs is imap-backed and pages messages in on demand;
upas/fs can read from plan 9's local mail spools, pop3, and imap,
but it keeps the messages all in memory).

Russ

Re: [9fans] delete mail from mailfs via script

[Felipe Bichued]

This might be of interest:
http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sources/contrib/uriel/doc/background/upas.ps

I don't know how outdated it is though.

Regards.

Felipe

On 5/21/07, Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com> wrote:
> > is there any paper on mailfs ?
> > I'd like to know how it works - maybe its suited to be used
> > in cross-platform MUAs too.
>
> Nope, just the source.
> http://swtch.com/usr/local/plan9/src/cmd/upas/nfs
> It is IMAP-only right now and depends on factotum.
>
> Mailfs is inspired by Plan 9's upas/fs, which is at
> http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sources/plan9/sys/src/cmd/upas/fs/
> and documented at
> http://plan9.bell-labs.com/magic/man2html/4/upasfs
>
> There are differences between the two interfaces but they
> are pretty minor.  The implementations are very different
> (mailfs is imap-backed and pages messages in on demand;
> upas/fs can read from plan 9's local mail spools, pop3, and imap,
> but it keeps the messages all in memory).
>
> Russ
>
>

Re: [9fans] delete mail from mailfs via script

[ron minnich]

On 5/18/07, Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com> wrote:
> > I read my email with p9ps acme and mailfs and searching  for
> > a  possibility to delete mails via script. Would be nice if I can
> > "blacklist" some threads. There are a "ctl" and a "search" file in the
> > mbox but I don't know exactly how to use both.
>
> The search file is unused (but implemented).
> The idea is you write a search string
> and read back a list of message ids.

so, I was messing around in acme mail, and wanted to try something like this:
Edit X/1-800-FLOWERS/d
I.e. blow messages away from those guys, but I never got it to quite
work. What am I missing?

thanks

ron

Re: [9fans] delete mail from mailfs via script

[Russ Cox]

> Edit X/1-800-FLOWERS/d
> I.e. blow messages away from those guys, but I never got it to quite
> work. What am I missing?

It would be nice if that worked, but 
acme's mail window is not directly 
editable.  Just like editing the subject
text doesn't change the subject in
the underlying message.

You can always use plain mail to do
that - g%1-800-FLOWERS%d

Russ

Re: [9fans] delete mail from mailfs via script

[ron minnich]

On 5/23/07, Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com> wrote:
> > Edit X/1-800-FLOWERS/d
> > I.e. blow messages away from those guys, but I never got it to quite
> > work. What am I missing?
>
> It would be nice if that worked, but
> acme's mail window is not directly
> editable.

Right, I said this incorrectly anyway. How to get something like this:
Edit X/1-800-FLOWERS/Delmsg
Since Delmsg is not really an acme command, I assume won't work -- I
tried it anyway.

I want the effect of mixing up acme commands with the process attached
to the window (no, I'm not sure I said that correctly).

thanks

ron

Re: [9fans] delete mail from mailfs via script

[Russ Cox]

> Right, I said this incorrectly anyway. How to get something like this:
> Edit X/1-800-FLOWERS/Delmsg
> Since Delmsg is not really an acme command, I assume won't work -- I
> tried it anyway.
> 
> I want the effect of mixing up acme commands with the process attached
> to the window (no, I'm not sure I said that correctly).

That's kind of interesting.  It might not be hard to make

Edit x/.*\n(	.*\n)+/ g/flowers/ * Delmesg

work (where * is a new command meaning
execute like button 2).  But that isn't implemented
right now.

Russ

Re: [9fans] delete mail from mailfs via script

[Sape Mullender]

> It might not be hard to make
> 
> Edit x/.*\n(	.*\n)+/ g/flowers/ * Delmesg
> 
> work (where * is a new command meaning
> execute like button 2).  But that isn't implemented
> right now.

That would be very useful for a number of things — nice idea.

	Sape

Re: [9fans] delete mail from mailfs via script

[Skip Tavakkolian]

> work (where * is a new command meaning
> execute like button 2).  But that isn't implemented
> right now.

that's really interesting, it could be a general macro
facility. 

Re: [9fans] delete mail from mailfs via script

[David Leimbach]

On 5/23/07, Skip Tavakkolian <9nut@9netics.com> wrote:
> > work (where * is a new command meaning
> > execute like button 2).  But that isn't implemented
> > right now.
>
> that's really interesting, it could be a general macro
> facility.
>
>

Indeed, I'd love a feature like that.

Re: [9fans] delete mail from mailfs via script

[Skip Tavakkolian]

>> > Edit X/1-800-FLOWERS/d
>> > I.e. blow messages away from those guys, but I never got it to quite
>> > work. What am I missing?
>>
>> It would be nice if that worked, but
>> acme's mail window is not directly
>> editable.
> 
> Right, I said this incorrectly anyway. How to get something like this:
> Edit X/1-800-FLOWERS/Delmsg
> Since Delmsg is not really an acme command, I assume won't work -- I
> tried it anyway.
> 
> I want the effect of mixing up acme commands with the process attached
> to the window (no, I'm not sure I said that correctly).

something that might make Delmesg more useful with "Look", is if Delmesg
tried to match /(^[0-9]+)/ in the current line when called.

Re: [9fans] delete mail from mailfs via script

[David Leimbach]

On 5/23/07, ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5/18/07, Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com> wrote:
> > > I read my email with p9ps acme and mailfs and searching  for
> > > a  possibility to delete mails via script. Would be nice if I can
> > > "blacklist" some threads. There are a "ctl" and a "search" file in the
> > > mbox but I don't know exactly how to use both.
> >
> > The search file is unused (but implemented).
> > The idea is you write a search string
> > and read back a list of message ids.
>
> so, I was messing around in acme mail, and wanted to try something like this:
> Edit X/1-800-FLOWERS/d
> I.e. blow messages away from those guys, but I never got it to quite
> work. What am I missing?
>
> thanks
>
> ron
>
What do you have against flowers?  :-)