dovecot - Jun 2012 - doveadm fetch LARGE attachments and remove message

Looking at the wiki and man pages I am unsure how to fetch email attachments
from a unix shell.

I have an "doveadm search" that returns the messages that have the
attachments I am after.

Would I loop through an "doveadm fetch" and use a commandline imap
client to save the attachments and move the message to the Trash?

Or is there a doveadm command for this?

Regards,
Bradley Giesbrecht (pixilla)

On 17.6.2012, at 18.19, Bradley Giesbrecht wrote:
> Looking at the wiki and man pages I am unsure how to fetch email
attachments from a unix shell.
> 
> I have an "doveadm search" that returns the messages that have
the attachments I am after.
> 
> Would I loop through an "doveadm fetch" and use a commandline
imap client to save the attachments and move the message to the Trash?
> 
> Or is there a doveadm command for this?
No, there's currently no easy way to do this. doveadm fetch doesn't
support that. You could possibly do this via IMAP, but it would be difficult to
know which MIME part to fetch. Actually it's not even obvious if a MIME part
is an attachment or not..