MAILDIRKW(1)

💖 MAILDIRKW(1) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to maildirkw — it's the little Double Precision, Inc. tool that sets maildir message keywords, and honestly? it's giving backstage-pass energy for your Courier IMAP server 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

maildirkw — set maildir message keywords 💅

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

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

maildirkw [-c] {-L} {maildir}

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So here's the tea: maildirkw modifies the Courier IMAP server compatible maildir message keywords. no cap, that's the whole job. it's the easy lil way to set or clear custom IMAP keywords that are attached to one specific message 🫶

• maildir — the pathname to a maildir, or to a maildir folder. yes bestie, it's a path, not a vibe.
• message — tells us which message's keywords we're about to mess with.
• keyword... — one or more keywords = the list of keywords you want set on this message.

⚠️ important, and I mean important: that list of keywords you pass replaces any keywords that are presently set for the message — every last one of them, gone, poof — unless you also pass the -a option or the -r option. so don't just yeet keywords in there and expect the old ones to survive. 🙈

The -L option lists all messages in the maildir, and their associated keywords. it's the little inventory moment, iconic for when you wanna see what's going on in there. 👑

The -a option adds the keyword to the existing keywords that are set for message. The -r removes keywords from message, leaving any remaining keywords set in place. so -a is the "yes and" and -r is the "not today, keyword" 💀

The -l should be used if the Courier IMAP server's configuration file has the IMAP_USELOCKS option set. -l enables a compatible locking mechanism to update the message's keywords. basically: if your server is locking, you lock too. match her energy. 🔥

-c enables case-sensitive keywords. IMAP keywords are normally case insensitive (fr fr, that's the default behavior). -c needs to be used if the SMAP1 protocol extension is used, which uses case sensitive keywords. so like, Important and important are two different girls under -c. 💅

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💜 SEE ALSO 💜

• maildiracl(1)
• maildirmake(1)

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

Sam Varshavchik Author

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🌈 NOTES 🌈

1. SMAP1 http://www.courier-mta.org/cone/smap1.html
2. maildiracl(1) http://www.courier-mta.org/maildiracl.html
3. maildirmake(1) http://www.courier-mta.org/maildirmake.html

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and that's the whole page bestie 🧚 this one's brought to you by Courier Mail Server, dated 11/04/2020, and yes it's still MAILDIRKW(1) — go set some keywords, you ate 💖✨🌸