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 # Automatically fetches email titles for FSR MaPhy mailing list (by default for the last week) and formats in TeX code
 
 To run, it needs log in credentials, provided via the environment:
-```
-IMAP_PASSWORD
-IMAP_EMAIL
-IMAP_SERVER (defaults to 'imap.uni-potsdam.de')
-IMAP_FOLDER (defaults to 'Uni Mail/FSR', change this to the folder that contains only your [FSR MaPhy] mails, for example with Thunderbird message filters)
-IMAP_CUTOFF (iso string of cutoff date (inclusive), defaults to one week)
-```
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+-`IMAP_PASSWORD` 
+-`IMAP_EMAIL` 
+-`IMAP_SERVER` (defaults to 'imap.uni-potsdam.de')
+-`IMAP_FOLDER` (defaults to 'Uni Mail/FSR', change this to the folder that contains only your [FSR MaPhy\] mails, for example with Thunderbird message filters)
+-`IMAP_CUTOFF` (iso string of cutoff date (inclusive), defaults to one week)
+
 
 call via