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--- curl:perform_imap_queries_using_curl [2020/09/25 12:59] – 192.168.1.1
+++ curl:perform_imap_queries_using_curl [2020/09/25 13:02] (current) – 192.168.1.1
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 If you leave out the password from the **<nowiki>--user</nowiki>** argument, curl will prompt you for the password before it preforms the request. This way you're not leaking your password to your shell history or the process list.
-Curl also supports .netrc lookup of user:password with -n, if the --user argument is left off.
+Curl also supports .netrc lookup of user:password with -n, if the **<nowiki>--user</nowiki>** argument is left off.
 </WRAP>
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 Here we see that we've connected, and received a list of folders, including "xen-users", "fairshare", and the "INBOX".
-If your mail-server is running over SSL then instead of using **imap://** you should set the schema to **imaps://**, it may be that you're using a self-signed certificate in that case you'd add **--insecure** to avoid checking the certificate trust-chain.
+If your mail-server is running over SSL then instead of using **<nowiki>imap://</nowiki>** you should set the schema to **<nowiki>imaps://</nowiki>**, it may be that you're using a self-signed certificate in that case you'd add **<nowiki>--insecure</nowiki>** to avoid checking the certificate trust-chain.
 This would look like so:
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 ===== Discovering Messages =====
-With the previous example we looked at listing mailboxes.  What if we wanted to actually view a message?  To fetch a message we need the identifier of the message to fetch - so we need to find out how many messages exist, as message-IDs are sequential.
+With the previous example we looked at listing mailboxes.  What if we wanted to actually view a message?
+To fetch a message we need the identifier of the message to fetch - so we need to find out how many messages exist, as message-IDs are sequential.
 To see how many messages exist in the folder "People-Steve" we'd run this:
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 The reason for avoiding custom-requests where possible is that when you're using the curl API programatically you'll discover that responses are not decoded - which is a known issue.
-In the example above we'd have received zero output unless/until we added the **--verbose** flag.  Precisely because curl has received the output from the IMAP-server but not decoded it and presented it to us.
+In the example above we'd have received zero output unless/until we added the **<nowiki>--verbose</nowiki>** flag.  Precisely because curl has received the output from the IMAP-server but not decoded it and presented it to us.
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