LEI-LS-MAIL-SOURCE(1)

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✨ LEI-LS-MAIL-SOURCE(1) ✨

okay so bestie, this one lives in the public-inbox user manual and it's genuinely so useful, keep reading 💖

💅 NAME

lei-ls-mail-source — list IMAP or NNTP mail source folders 🎀

🦋 SYNOPSIS

lei ls-mail-source [OPTIONS] URL

🌸 DESCRIPTION

So you've got an IMAP or NNTP mail source sitting at URL and you wanna know what's actually in there? This is the girl for the job, fr fr. It lists information about that mail source, and lowkey that's it — but it's iconic.

The way that it also populates the cache used for Bash shell completion? Obsessed. And it's genuinely handy for writing lei-import(1) invocations, no cap. 🫶

✨ OPTIONS ✨

  • -z, -0 — Use "\0" (NUL) instead of newline (CR) to delimit lines. (yes bestie, CR, that's what it says 👑)
  • -l — Format output as JSON and include more information. main character energy honestly 🌈
  • --pretty — Pretty-print JSON output. And listen: if stdout is opened to a tty, --pretty is enabled by default. automatic slay 💅
  • --ascii — Escape non-ASCII characters. keeping it plain and readable 🍓
  • --url — Show full URL of newsgroup or IMAP folder. the whole thing, not the snippet 💜

💌 CONTACT

Feedback welcome via plain-text mail to <mailto:meta@public-inbox.org> — seriously, they want your thoughts ✨

The mail archives are hosted at <https://public-inbox.org/meta/> and <http://4uok3hntl7oi7b4uf4rtfwefqeexfzil2w6kgk2jn5z2f764irre7byd.onion/meta/> 🦋

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License: AGPL-3.0+ <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.txt> — read it, respect it, it's giving legal icon behavior 😭

🔥 SEE ALSO

okay that's the whole thing bestie, go forth and list those sources 💖 this was brought to you by public-inbox.git on 1993-10-02 — periodt 🎀🌸

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