MAILDIRKW(1)

✨ MAILDIRKW(1) ✨

okay bestie, so like — this is section 1 of the manual, <cyan>maildirkw</cyan> by S. Varshavchik, and it's literally the cutest little tool for tagging your maildir messages with custom IMAP keywords 💅

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🌸 NAME 🌸

maildirkw — set maildir message keywords 🎀

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

maildirkw [-l] [-a] [-r] {maildir} {message} [keyword...]

maildirkw {-L} {maildir}

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

So <hotpink>maildirkw</hotpink> modifies the Courier IMAP server compatible maildir message keywords. Basically it's your lil shortcut to set or clear custom IMAP keywords on one specific message, no biggie ✨

Here's the tea on the arguments:

• maildir — this is the pathname to a maildir, or a maildir folder 📁 (the -L option is the one that lists all the messages in the maildir, plus their associated keywords, and we're obsessed with that).
• message — tells you which message's keywords are getting set 🎯
• keyword... — one or more keywords, aka the list of keywords to set for this message. Heads up: this list replaces any keywords already set on the message, unless you use -a or -r. So don't come for the old keywords unless you meant to 🫶

Now the flags, one by one:

• -a — adds the keyword to the existing keywords that are already set for message ➕
• -r — removes keywords from message, leaving any remaining keywords set in place ➖
• -l — use this one if the Courier IMAP server's configuration file has the IMAP_USELOCKS option set. It enables a compatible locking mechanism to update the message's keywords 🔒 ngl you want the lock if that option is on, it's giving "do not skip this"

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👀 SEE ALSO 👀

• maildiracl(1)[1]
• maildirmake(1)[2]

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

Sam Varshavchik

• Author

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📌 NOTES 📌

1. maildiracl(1) http://www.courier-mta.org/maildiracl.html
2. maildirmake(1) http://www.courier-mta.org/maildirmake.html

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pookie you made it to the end 🥹

this page is from Courier Mail Server, dated 05/03/2026 — slay, that's the whole manual, no cap 💖✨🦋