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chainmail draft create

Save a new message to the account's Drafts folder without sending it.

It takes send's account, recipient, subject, body and attachment options (not --draft, --dry-run or --idempotency-key); --account is required. The ref it prints is what draft update, draft send and draft delete take.

Usage​

chainmail draft create [flags]

Examples​

chainmail draft create --account work --to alice@example.com --subject "Notes" --body-file notes.md
# save a draft, then send it by the ref it prints
chainmail draft send "$(chainmail draft create --account work --to alice@example.com --subject Hi --body Hi --output json | jq -r .draft.ref)"

Flags​

      --account string       the account whose Drafts folder keeps the draft (required)
      --attach stringArray   attach this file (repeatable)
      --bcc stringArray      a blind-copied recipient, kept out of the message itself (repeatable)
      --body string          the body as Markdown, or - to read it from stdin
      --body-file string     read the Markdown body from this file
      --cc stringArray       a copied recipient (repeatable)
      --html-file string     send this HTML file as the body, with --body as its text part when given
      --inline stringArray   show image file F inline where the body refers to NAME, as NAME=F (repeatable)
      --no-signature         leave out the account's signature
      --subject string       the subject line (required)
      --text                 send the body as plain text instead of Markdown
      --to stringArray       a recipient, "Name <a@b>" or "a@b" (repeatable)

Global flags​

      --output string   output format: json or table (default $CHAINMAIL_OUTPUT, then cli.toml, then table on a terminal, json otherwise)
      --socket string   daemon socket (default $CHAINMAIL_SOCKET, then cli.toml, then /run/chainmail/chainmail.sock)

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