I am using Neomutt, and I want to display notifications whenever new mail comes in the inbox. I used the new_mail_command to send a notification via notify-send. But I also want to include the sender's address in the notification. Is there any way to do that? Maybe some status_format type of thing?
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what is your mailbox backend? is it IMAP, maildir, mbox? – Jakub Jindra Sep 18 '20 at 11:14
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It is IMAP. Really thanks! – weirdsmiley Sep 19 '20 at 03:46
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If it was maildir or notmuch it would be easy. With IMAP I don't think this is possible using mutt/neomutt since new_mail_command uses status_format expandos therefore there's no option to get the senders. But it should be possible to use some biff like program that does that and completely move this functionality elsewhere. – Jakub Jindra Sep 19 '20 at 09:24
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Really thanks for your response! I will look up for biff. Also is there any way to scrape out the headers from incoming emails? Maybe I can just parse that header for relevant information. – weirdsmiley Sep 19 '20 at 10:46