From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: Eric Wong <e@yhbt.net>
Cc: meta@public-inbox.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] imap_fetch: Add a command to continuously fetch from an imap mailbox
Date: Fri, 15 May 2020 16:26:14 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87o8qoao09.fsf@x220.int.ebiederm.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a728c3p3.fsf_-_@x220.int.ebiederm.org> (Eric W. Biederman's message of "Fri, 15 May 2020 16:02:00 -0500")
ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) writes:
> The command imap_fetch connects to the specified imap mailbox and
> fetches any unfetch messages than waits with imap idle until there are
> more messages to fetch.
>
> By default messages are placed in the specified public inbox mailbox.
> The value of List-ID is consulted and if it is present used to
> select an alternate public-inbox mailbox to place the messages in.
>
> The email messages are placed without modification into the public
> inbox repository so minimize changes of corruption or of loosing
> valuable information. I use the command imap_fetch for all of my
> email and not just a mailling list mirror so I don't want automation
> to accidentally cause something important to be lost.
>
> No email messages are deleted from the server instead IMAPTracker
> is used to remember which messages were downloaded.
>
> Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
> ---
Bah. I sent this a little too soon. The patch needs this small
incremental fix to actually work.
Anyway I hope this is enough to help you with your integration of imap
functionality into public-inbox-watch.
Eric
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-05-15 21:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-10-29 14:40 I have figured out IMAP IDLE Eric W. Biederman
2019-10-29 22:31 ` Eric Wong
2019-10-29 23:12 ` WWW::Curl [was: I have figured out IMAP IDLE] Eric Wong
2019-11-03 16:28 ` I have figured out IMAP IDLE Eric W. Biederman
2020-05-13 19:31 ` Eric Wong
2020-05-13 21:48 ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-05-13 22:17 ` Eric Wong
2020-05-14 12:32 ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-05-14 16:15 ` Eric Wong
2020-05-15 21:00 ` [PATCH 1/2] IMAPTracker: Add a helper to track our place in reading imap mailboxes Eric W. Biederman
2020-05-15 21:02 ` [PATCH 2/2] imap_fetch: Add a command to continuously fetch from an imap mailbox Eric W. Biederman
2020-05-15 21:26 ` Eric W. Biederman [this message]
2020-05-15 22:56 ` Eric Wong
2020-05-16 10:47 ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-05-16 19:12 ` Eric Wong
2020-05-16 20:09 ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-05-16 22:53 ` [PATCH] confine Email::MIME use even further Eric Wong
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