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From: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Alyssa Ross <hi@alyssa.is>, meta@public-inbox.org
Subject: Re: Do I need multiple publicinbox.<name>.address values?
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2019 08:31:32 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191010083132.GA14886@ailurophile> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87h84ibb9m.fsf@x220.int.ebiederm.org>

"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> wrote:
> Eric Wong <e@80x24.org> writes:
> 
> > "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> wrote:
> >> 	my $tracker = PublicInbox::IMAPTracker->new();
> >
> > Thanks.  What's PublicInbox::IMAPTracker?
> 
> Something that keeps the last fetched UID in an sqlite database.
> I will follow up with a patch for that as well.

Thanks!

> I haven't been brave enough to let this script delete any mail
> yet so I need to track what has been fetched.  Something that
> will be rolled back if the email message isn't commited into git.
> 
> I have a companion script that will delete mail.

Yup.  I also don't trust and don't want somebody trusting my
code when it comes to deleting stuff.

So I've also been considering a script which deletes mail from
my Maildirs/IMAP folders if a ContentId matches what's in a
known public-inbox, perhaps after a certain time...

> I mostly sent it so that there is some idea what I am working with.
> 
> In context of this discussion I don't remember how often I am looking at
> the "Delivered-To:" header.  That is almost gone but I know for a while
> I was using that as well.
> 
> >> for (;;imap_sleep()) {
> >> 	# Run fetch_mail in it's own separate process so
> >> 	# that if something goes wrong the process exits
> >> 	# and everything cleans up properly.
> >> 	#
> >> 	# Running fetch_mail in an eval block is not enough
> >> 	# to prevent leaks of locks and other resources.
> >
> > I was thinking along the same lines :)
> >
> > The rest looked good and it's definitely something I can work
> > with to get supportable in a way that reuses git's credential
> > system and configs.
> 
> I think fundamentally the script sucks because it is one email message
> at a time (not using IMAPs overlapping), the script is polling (NOT
> using IMAP idle), and I have magic to go from the server that I need
> to fetch to the actual domain.

Yeah, IMAP client libraries are pretty disappointing
considering what the protocol is capable of.

I just checked libcurl and I don't see that it supports
IMAP IDLE, either; and honestly I'm not sure how to add
it since curl is more intended for URLs.

> But in practice the script seems to be working reliably even in the
> event of an error right now.

Cool.  Perfect is the enemy of good, after all :>

  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-10-10  8:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-10-07 22:13 Do I need multiple publicinbox.<name>.address values? Alyssa Ross
2019-10-08  0:10 ` Eric Wong
2019-10-08 12:18   ` Eric W. Biederman
2019-10-08 12:23     ` [PATCH] Config.pm: Add support for mailing list information Eric W. Biederman
2019-10-08 22:11     ` Do I need multiple publicinbox.<name>.address values? Eric Wong
2019-10-08 22:24       ` Eric W. Biederman
2019-10-08 22:41         ` Eric Wong
2019-10-09  7:58           ` Eric W. Biederman
2019-10-09  8:15             ` [PATCH 0/4] Various bits to support import_imap_mailbox Eric W. Biederman
2019-10-09  8:16               ` [PATCH 1/4] PublicInbox::Import Smuggle a raw message into add Eric W. Biederman
2019-10-15 20:26                 ` Eric Wong
2019-10-15 23:05                   ` Eric W. Biederman
2019-10-09  8:17               ` [PATCH 2/4] PublicInbox::Config: Process mailboxes in sorted order Eric W. Biederman
2019-10-10  9:43                 ` Eric Wong
2019-10-10 11:05                   ` Eric W. Biederman
2019-10-09  8:23               ` [PATCH 3/4] Config.pm: Add support for looking up repos by their directories Eric W. Biederman
2019-10-09  8:25               ` [PATCH 4/4] IMAPTracker: Add a helper to track our place in reading imap mailboxes Eric W. Biederman
2019-10-10 19:08               ` ibx->{listid} autoviv fixup [was: [PATCH 0/4] Various bits to support import_imap_mailbox] Eric Wong
2019-10-10 21:23                 ` Eric W. Biederman
2019-10-10  8:31             ` Eric Wong [this message]
2019-10-10 10:56               ` Do I need multiple publicinbox.<name>.address values? Eric W. Biederman
2019-10-09 11:59   ` Alyssa Ross
2019-10-10 10:06     ` Eric Wong

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