mhi is a commandline style mailreader in the tradition of mh and nmh, but mutated to support IMAP.
One thing that IMAP provides is the ability for multiple clients to access the same mail store. Graphical clients are all well and good, but sometimes a reversion to the commandline is necessary. Neither mh nor nmh will talk to an IMAP server (mh's original semantics, which nmh duplicates, rely on messages not auto-renumbering, as they do in IMAP folders), so I had to write my own client. Python's imaplib made this easy.
As of v0.6.5 MHI is available as a PyPI package (pip install mhi
)
The same version also incorporates the old mkLinks wrapper-script functionality
via:
python -m mhi.mklinks <destdir>
It then needs to be configured. Make a ~/.mhirc file with the line:
connection = imap[s]://[username]:[password]@[host][:port]//
This configures the IMAP(s) connection to use
Other variables are supported but optional, like
folder_prefix
- the prefix to add to your IMAP folders
comp_template
- the template put into your editor when you use comp
to
write new mail
repl_template
- the template put into your editor when you repl
y to a message
- use click
- more help - should be self-documenting
Licensing information is in the LICENSE file. (short version: GPLv3 or CCBYSA)