smd-uniform-names(1)

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💅 smd-uniform-names(1) — the glow-up your mail filenames have been waiting for

okay so bestie, this is a page from the Sync Mail Dir (smd) docs, and it's about a little tool called smd-uniform-names that renames local mails as on the remote host. yes, that's the whole vibe. let's get into it 🎀

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

smd-uniform-names [-v|--verbose] [endpoint]

like, that's it. that's the whole incantation. short, sweet, iconic 🦋

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so here's the tea: smd-uniform-names is useful to migrate from offlineimap to smd. that's literally its whole purpose and it serves it 💅

the thing is, offlineimap may name the same email differently on the local and remote host. same email, two different names, total chaos, not the matching-energy we deserve 😭. so this utility generates a script to be run on the local host that uniforms the names to the remote ones. boom. matched. slayed. ✨

and listen closely bestie, because this part matters:

the utility generates the script ~/smd-rename.sh that has to be run by the user. it does NOT run itself. it's not gonna hold your hand. it writes the script and then it's like "you got this, girl" and hands you the keyboard 🫶

💖 OPTIONS 💖

  • -v, --verbose — verbose output. she's talkative. she's telling you everything she's doing. main character energy fr fr 💬
  • endpoint — is the suffix for the name of the configuration file to use. if it is omitted, the configuration file ~/.smd/config.default is used. so like, leave it blank and you get the default config, name it and you get your own lil custom one 🌈

🎀 FILES 🎀

  • ~/.smd/config.*
  • ~/smd-rename.sh

both of them. the configs live in ~/.smd/, and the rename script lands right in your home directory like a lil gift you have to unwrap yourself 🍓

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

go read those too, bestie, they're the rest of the friend group 👑

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Enrico Tassi <gares@fettunta.org> — the icon who made this happen. periodt 💜

and that's the page!! this one came from the Sync Mail Dir (smd) documentation, dated 21 April 2021 — so like, vintage but still ate 🔥 hope this helped, mwah 💋

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