isaacrowntree social email
Email through the himalaya CLI: list, read, search, trace headers, send, reply, move, flag, delete.
Run: social email <command> (installed via bun link in this repo, or bun run /path/to/claude-social-skills/src/cli.ts email …). Add --dry-run before any command to print the request instead of sending it.
Credentials
- none; auth lives in the underlying tool's own config
Nothing to store here: accounts, servers and passwords live in himalaya's TOML config. Run himalaya account configure (or bare himalaya) to add one, himalaya account list to see them.
Check what is present with social auth status email; store a value with social auth set email <KEY> <value> (OS keyring, else ~/.config/social/.env). Docs: https://github.com/pimalaya/himalaya
API description this wrapper is built from
No machine-readable spec: himalaya --help (v2.1.0).
Commands
Every command accepts --json (raw JSON) and --jq <expr> (filter the JSON with jq).
social email accounts
accounts in himalaya's config
social email folders
mailboxes (folders) of an account
--counts also fetch total/unread per mailbox (one IMAP STATUS each)
-a, --account <name> himalaya account (default: the config's default account)
social email list
newest envelopes first (* unread, ! flagged, @ attachment)
-f, --folder <name> mailbox name or alias (default: inbox)
-s, --page-size <n> envelopes per page (himalaya default 25)
-p, --page <n> page number from 1
--has-attachment populate the attachment marker (extra lookup per envelope)
-a, --account <name> himalaya account (default: the config's default account)
social email search <query>...
search envelopes: from x and subject y, after 2026-01-01, flag seen, not …, order by date desc
-f, --folder <name> mailbox name or alias (default: inbox)
-s, --page-size <n> envelopes per page
-p, --page <n> page number from 1
-a, --account <name> himalaya account (default: the config's default account)
social email read <id>
read a message (leaves it unread unless --seen)
-f, --folder <name> mailbox name or alias (default: inbox)
--preview accepted for compatibility: v2 reads never mark seen
--seen mark the message seen while reading
-H, --headers <names...> print only these headers, from the raw message
--raw the original RFC 5322 bytes
-a, --account <name> himalaya account (default: the config's default account)
social email trace <id>
where a message came from: Received chain, SPF/DKIM/DMARC results, Return-Path, originating IP, mailer
-f, --folder <name> mailbox name or alias (default: inbox)
-a, --account <name> himalaya account (default: the config's default account)
social email attachments <id>
list a message's attachments; ids feed himalaya attachment download <msg> <id>
-f, --folder <name> mailbox name or alias (default: inbox)
-d, --download [dir] download all to a directory (default: himalaya's downloads-dir)
-a, --account <name> himalaya account (default: the config's default account)
social email send <spec>
send a message from a JSON spec {to, cc, bcc, subject, body, from, attachments}: a file path, - for stdin, or inline JSON
-a, --account <name> himalaya account (default: the config's default account)
social email reply <id>
reply to a message; recipients come from Reply-To/From unless --to is given
-f, --folder <name> mailbox of the source (default: inbox)
-b, --body <text> reply text (stdin if omitted)
-t, --to <addr...> override recipients
--cc <addr...>
--bcc <addr...>
--attach <file...>
--bottom quote the original above your text
-a, --account <name> himalaya account (default: the config's default account)
social email forward <id>
forward a message (himalaya adds no recipient itself, so --to is required)
-t, --to <addr...> recipient(s) (required)
-f, --folder <name> mailbox of the source (default: inbox)
-b, --body <text> note above the forwarded text (default "")
--cc <addr...>
--bcc <addr...>
--attach <file...>
-a, --account <name> himalaya account (default: the config's default account)
social email move <id> <folder>
move a message to another mailbox
-f, --folder <name> source mailbox (default: inbox)
-a, --account <name> himalaya account (default: the config's default account)
social email flag <id>
add or remove flags: seen, answered, flagged, draft
--add <flags...>
--remove <flags...>
-f, --folder <name> mailbox name or alias (default: inbox)
-a, --account <name> himalaya account (default: the config's default account)
social email delete <id>
delete a message (moves to trash; permanent if already in trash)
-f, --folder <name> mailbox name or alias (default: inbox)
-a, --account <name> himalaya account (default: the config's default account)
Anything else: the escape hatch
social api email <path> # GET, path relative to the API root
social api email <path> -q key=value # query parameters
social api email <path> -f key=value # JSON body field (typed: numbers, booleans, null, JSON literals); implies POST
social api email <path> --raw-field key=value # string field
social api email <path> -X DELETE
social api email <path> --input body.json # or --input - for stdin
social api email <path> --form # urlencoded body instead of JSON
social api email <path> --jq '.data[0].id'
Reach for social api email … before concluding something is unsupported.
Behaviour
- Retries 502/503/504 on idempotent methods (3 attempts, 250 ms then 1 s); waits once on 429 up to 90 s.
- Errors print
HTTP <status> <method> <url>and the response body, exit code 1. --dry-runprints the method, URL and body of any mutating call and sends nothing.social doctormakes one cheap authenticated read per configured platform.