Re: Sort emails on IMAPS server

Dear Charles,

Thanks for the reply.

Yeah. Sure.

I use a two-step workflow.

In the first step, I fetch all emails from all email accounts into a 
maildir. The maildir is used by IMAP server.

In the second step, I hope to be able to retrieve emails, for example, 
10 most recent emails at a time, from the maildir's corresponding IMAP 
server to a second maildir. I only read the emails on the second 
maildir.

This helps me because I then won't have all the emails at once in my 
mailbox.

Do you know an other mean that may accomplish this two-step workflow?

Yours sincerely,

Xianwen

-------- Original Message --------

  		SUBJECT:
  		Re: Sort emails on IMAPS server

  		DATE:
  		2020-12-10 14:46

  		FROM:
  		Charles Cazabon <[email protected]>

  		TO:
  		[email protected]

Xianwen Chen (陈贤文) <[email protected]> wrote:

> I'm hoping to sort emails on IMAP server before fetching them.

Can you explain why?  What exactly you're hoping to accomplish, because 
the
obvious uses - at least the ones that come to mind for me - can all be
accomplished with other means with getmail, or are moot.

Charles