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I use Evolution to send and receive mail via IMAP. I want to keep using Evolution most of the time, but I want the option to check and read mail from the command line as well. Reading a new email from the command line should cause Evolution to also display it as read (so I don't have to read them twice), but simply fetching from CLI without marking as read should not make Evolution fail to fetch it.

How can I do this? I know there is a mail command, but that seems to display mail from my OS to my Linux user, not the mail sent from other people to my email box.

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    You could use mutt, which could mark the messages as read on the mail server, and Evolution would view them as read once it syncs.
    – Kenneth B. Jensen
    Feb 25, 2017 at 19:40

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mutt is the right choice, try

mutt -f "imaps://USER:PASS@imap.gmail.com/INBOX"

Press ? to show keyboard commands.

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  • My provider is not Gmail. Also this results in my email pass being in the shell history in plaintext.
    – Bagalaw
    Mar 1, 2017 at 0:21
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    Sure, and your name is not USER and your password is not PASS. The generic syntax without password is mutt -f imaps://USER@imap.notgmail.com/INBOX.
    – ingopingo
    Mar 11, 2017 at 17:29

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