feed2imap-cleaner(1)

💖 feed2imap-cleaner — from the General Commands Manual ✨

okay bestie, sit down, hydrate, because we're talking about feed2imap-cleaner(1) and it's literally the cleanup crew of your feed2imap era 🧹🫶

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🌸 NAME 🌸

feed2imap-cleaner — removes old items from IMAP folders. that's it. that's the whole job. she's a declutter girlie and she's good at it 💅

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

feed2imap-cleaner [OPTIONS]

no args, just vibes and options. periodt.

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so here's the tea ☕ — feed2imap-cleaner deletes old items from the IMAP folders you told it about in the configuration file. she goes through and clears out the stale ones, main character energy only 👑

the actual query string she uses to decide whether an item is old is literally this:

SEEN NOT FLAGGED BEFORE (3 days ago)

which means an item WON'T be deleted if it satisfies one of the following conditions 👇 (yes, just one, she's generous like that):

• It isn't 3 days old ;
• It hasn't been read yet ;
• It is flagged (marked as Important, for example).

so if your lil feed item is young, unread, or you flagged it — she's leaving it ALONE. no cap. she respects your choices 💖

🎀 the options (the whole menu, she's small but mighty) 🎀

• -d, --dry-run — don't remove anything, but show what would be removed if run without this option. it's giving window shopping, it's giving "let me just LOOK" 👀 nothing gets touched, she's just showing you the receipts.
• -f, --config file — use another config file (~/.feed2imaprc is the default). so if your config lives somewhere else, tell her. she's flexible 🦋

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💀 BUGS 💀

Deletion criterias should probably be more configurable.

(translation: the deletion rules are kinda fixed and honestly? she could be more customizable. it's on the list. we know. 😭)

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• Homepage : http://home.gna.org/feed2imap/ — go say hi, iykyk 🌈
• feed2imaprc(5), feed2imap(1)

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

Copyright (C) 2005 Lucas Nussbaum lucas@lucas-nussbaum.net

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

fr fr read that warranty part again. no promises were made. she's useful but she is NOT your lawyer 💅

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and that's the whole page bestie — this was feed2imap-cleaner(1), dated Jul 25, 2005, and she ATE. go clean those folders. mwah 🎀💖✨