ImapFix: a filter/fixer for IMAP mailboxes

You can leave this running on a server somewhere and connect to your IMAP account from different machines/devices. Processed messages are moved from the inbox to a folder called in unless otherwise directed by your filters.

Selected features: (see program for a full list)

Can use SpamProbe

Converts non-ASCII headers and body to Unicode when possible, so you can connect with a device that can’t handle other encodings

Move very large message bodies into attachments, to work around display problems on some devices

Create “thumbnails” of large images so they can be previewed on low-bandwidth connections

Can use tnef and soffice to unpack winmail.dat and add HTML or PDF versions of office documents, so you can view these on devices that don’t otherwise support them

Move mail between IMAP and local Maildirs

Move old mail to compressed archives, saving attachments separately and merging duplicates; archives can be searched along with current mail

Periodically check additional IMAP accounts and process their mail as if it had been sent to the first

Rewrite delivery failure reports, adding the failed address to the Subject when possible

Rewrite the “importance” flag according to your own rules

Manage folders named after dates, for postponing messages and notes to a specific future date

Can add arbitrary Python code to the rules, and/or run extra code on messages that were SSL-authenticated as from yourself (for email-based remote control)

Download: imapfix.py (requires Python 2; license: Apache 2;

imapfix.py

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