Fetch new emails in Alfred
-
Node JS higher than
11.7.0
- Install package through npm
$ npm install --global alfred-simple-email-fetcher
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Run
em > config
and setup account settings -
Set the imap settings for the account you added. May you can refer to the documents
You can configure detailed settings by editing your config.json
.
Example:
{
"autoMarkSeen": false,
"providerPrefix": true,
"subtitle": "date-from",
"maxEmailsCount": 50,
"sorting": "provider-timedesc",
"accounts": {
"google": {
"enabled": true,
"icon": "google.png",
"link": "https://mail.google.com/mail/",
"imap": {
"user": "user@gmail.com",
"password": "account_password",
"host": "imap.gmail.com",
"port": 993,
"tls": true,
"authTimeout": 3000
}
},
"naver": {
"enabled": true,
"icon": "naver.png",
"link": "https://mail.naver.com/",
"imap": {
"user": "user@naver.com",
"password": "account_password",
"host": "imap.naver.com",
"port": 993,
"tls": true,
"authTimeout": 3000
}
}
}
}
Type: Boolean
Mark seen when fetch emails
Type: Boolean
Append email provider name to email record.
Type: String (enum)
date
or from
or date-from
or from-date
or account
or default
default value shows account, date, from.
Type: Number
Set the maximum number of emails to display.
Type: String (enum)
Sorts and returns search results.
subject
(mail title)provider-subject
(sort provider first and subject)timeDesc
(recent email first)timeAsec
(old email first)provider-timeAsec
provider-timeDesc
Type: Array of object
You can register multiple email accounts.
this workflow use worker_thread
at each imap connection.
Type: Boolean
If this value is false, this account is ignored.
Type: String
Show this icon on this account's emails.
icon files should be placed within icons
folder.
Type: Object
imap configuration object used by node-imap.
imap's default port value is 993
.
you could find out host
value in your account's imap setting page.
keepalive
option will be set false in script, you can set other options in config file.
Fetch and show emails on UNSEEN
state from registered accounts.
Select one provider and fetch only the account's UNSEEN
emails.
You can fetch emails which account's enabled
is false by this method.
Open the config.json
file through your editor.