Email Client

by Kulbir Saini on Configuration, Email Client, HowTo

How To: Configure Evolution

Well if you already know it, don’t waste your time. But if you don’t know just go through it. Today I started using evolution mail for viewing my mails at the students mail server. Its very attractive as you have vast variety of options for making contact list and its fast and easy way to have your mails at hand. Filters are provided with different specifications. You have your calendar to schedule your jobs and much more to explore. Following are the configuration steps.

1. Start evolution mail by clicking this icon Evolution Icon on you panel or in start menu go to internet and click Email or evolution mail or run command “evolution” from the terminal.

2. A window like this will appear

Evolution Startup

Evolution Startup

click forward to have this …

Evolution Mail Account

Evolution Mail Account

after adding user yourname@students.iiit.ac.in click forward ….

Evolution Mail Account Preferences

Evolution Mail Account Preferences

choose imap as server type and fill other required information and click forward ….

Evolutoin Mail Server Preferences

Evolutoin Mail Server Preferences

fill information accordingly as it suits you and click forward …

Evolution Account Name

Evolution Account Name

name the account and click forward …

Evolution Finish

Evolution Finish

click apply and it will ask your password for the account give the password.

Now enjoy the facilities provided in the evolution mail browser.

 
by Kulbir Saini on Email Client, Hacks, Programming, Shell, Tips - Tricks

Hack: Mail Filter – Shell Script

This is an attempt by me to filter mails on a Linux machine. You can run this file on your home directory at mail server and it will help you to sort mails on the basis of

  • From which user the mail has come or from which domain it came,
  • to which user or domain mail was sent and
  • the keywords in the subject part of the mail.

Actually its very slow as shell is very slow , I cant help it . It scan your entire mbox file in the home directory by default. Copy the code and paste in a file say filter.sh and change its permissions to executable. Place it in you home directory at the mail server and run.

Example
You want to see all mails from username@gmail.com just run and it will ask for input,
press 1
From: username [Enter]
It will display all the mails from that are lying there in your mbox one by one.

Get the script here or copy the code below.

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#!/bin/bash
#################################
#   Author - Kulbir Saini       #
#   Home - http://sain.ico.in/  #
#################################
 
#shell script to filter mails.
echo -e -n "\033[32mWelcome to the mail filter system \nWhat do you want to do? \nCheck mails on basis of \n1) Sender... \n2) Receiver... \n3) Subject... \n4) Quit... \nPress(1,2,3,4): \033[0m"
read int <&2
while [[ 1 ]];do
while [[ 1 ]];do
count=0;	line=""
if [[ $int == 1 ]];then
	echo -n -e "\033[32mFrom:\033[0m "
	read from <&2
	i=0
	clear
	while read line ;do
	loopbreak=0;	nextmessagestatus=1;	mailtostatus=1;		mailsubstatus=1;	stat=1;
	toecho=`echo $line | grep -E "^From:+" | grep -E "${from}"`
	if [ "$toecho" != "" ];then
		i=`expr $i + 1`
		echo -e "${toecho}"
		while read line ; do
		mailto=`echo $line | grep -E "^To:+"`
		mailsub=`echo $line | grep -E "^Subject:+"`
		if [[ "$mailto" != "" ]] && [[ $mailtostatus == 1 ]];then
			echo $mailto
			mailtostatus=0
		fi
		if [[ "$mailsub" != "" ]] && [[ $mailsubstatus == 1 ]];then
			echo $mailsub
			mailsubstatus=0
		fi
		if [[ $mailtostatus == 0 ]] && [[ $mailsubstatus == 0 ]] && [[ $stat == 1 ]];then
			echo -e "\033[33mStarting of the Message${i}:\033[0m"
			stat=0
		fi
		fromstatus=`echo $line | grep -E "^X-UID:+"`
			if [[ $fromstatus != "" ]];then
			while read line; do
				loopstatus=`echo $line | grep -E "^From +"`
				if [[ $loopstatus != "" ]];then
				loopbreak=1
				break
				fi
				echo $line
			done
			if [[ $loopbreak == 1 ]];then
			echo -e -n "\033[33mEnd of the Message${i}.\nDisplay next message(y/n):\033[0m"
			read messagestatus <&2
			if [[ "$messagestatus" == "y" ]];then
				clear
			else
				nextmessagestatus=0
			fi
			break
			fi
			fi
		done
		count=`expr $count + 1`
	fi
	if [[ $nextmessagestatus == 0 ]];then
		break
	fi
	done
	if [[ $count == 0 ]];then
		echo -e "\033[32mNo mail(s) From: ${from}.\n\033[0m"
	else
		echo -e "\033[32mTotal $count mail(s) From: ${from}.\n\033[0m"
	fi
elif [[ $int == 2 ]];then
	echo -n -e "\033[32mTo: \033[0m"
	read to <&2
	i=0
	clear
	while read line ;do
	loopbreak=0;	nextmessagestatus=1
	toecho=`echo $line | grep -E "^To:+" | grep -E "${to}"`
	if [[ "$toecho" != "" ]];then
		echo -e "$toecho"
		i=`expr $i + 1`
		while read line; do
			tostatus=`echo $line | grep -E "^X-UID:+"`
			if [[ $tostatus != "" ]];then
			echo -e "\033[33mStarting of the Message${i}:\033[0m"
			while read line; do
				loopstatus=`echo $line | grep -E "^From +"`
				if [[ $loopstatus != "" ]];then
				loopbreak=1
				break
				fi
				echo $line
			done
			if [[ $loopbreak == 1 ]];then
			echo -e -n "\033[33mEnd of the Message${i}. \nDisplay next message(y/n): \033[0m"
			read messagestatus <&2
			if [[ $messagestatus == "y" ]];then
				clear
			else
				nextmessagestatus=0
			fi
			break
			fi
			fi
		done
		count=`expr $count + 1`
	fi
	if [[ $nextmessagestatus == 0 ]];then
		break
	fi
	done
	if [[ $count == 0 ]];then
		echo -e "\033[32mNo mail(s) to: ${to}.\n\033[0m"
	else 
		echo -e "\033[32mTotal $count mail(s) To: ${to}.\n\033[0m"
	fi
elif [[ $int == 3 ]];then
	echo -n -e "\033[32mSubject:\033[0m "
 
	read subject <&2
	clear
	i=0
	while read line ;do
	loopbreak=0;	nextmessagestatus=1
	toecho=`echo $line | grep -E "^Subject:+" | grep -E "${subject}"`
	if [[ "$toecho" != "" ]];then
		echo "$toecho"
		i=`expr $i + 1`
		while read line; do
		substatus=`echo $line | grep -E "^X-UID:+"`
		if [[ $substatus != "" ]];then
		echo -e "\033[33mStarting of the Message${i}:\033[0m"
		while read line ; do
			loopstatus=`echo $line | grep -E "^From +"`
			if [[ $loopstatus != "" ]];then
			loopbreak=1
			break
			fi
			echo $line
		done
		if [[ $loopbreak == 1 ]];then
		echo -e -n "\033[33mEnd of the message${i}. \nDisplay next message(y/n): \033[0m"
		read messagestatus <&2
		if [[ $messagestatus == "y" ]];then
			clear
		else
			nextmessagestatus=0
		fi
		break
		fi
		fi
		done
		count=`expr $count + 1`
	fi
	if [[ $nextmessagestatus == 0 ]];then
		break
	fi
	done
	if [[ $count == 0 ]];then
		echo -e "\033[32mNo mail(s) with Subject: ${subject}.\n\033[0m"
	else
		echo -e "\033[32mTotal $count mail(s) with Subject: ${subject}.\033[0m\n"
	fi
elif [[ $int == 4 ]];then
	echo -e "\033[32mThank you for using this utility. \nPlease visit again.\033[0m"
	exit
else
	echo -e "\033[32mI could not understand that. \nPlease try again.\033[0m\n"
fi
echo -e -n "\033[32m1) Sender... \n2) Receiver... \n3) Subject... \n4) Quit... \nPress(1,2,3,4):\033[0m "
read int <&2
break
done < mbox 
done