[Mailsync-list] Re: Two patches to mailsync

[Tomas P. <tp...@so...>]

On Tue, 23 Nov 2004, Bruce Merry wrote:

> I've been using mailsync for a while and have modified it to suit my
> needs. I don't know if these patches are of more general interest, but
> feel free to include them (GPL licence). The first adds a -N option,
> which if used will cause only mailboxes found in BOTH stores to be
> synced. I find this useful in keeping a subset of my mailboxes on an
> internet-accessible server for roaming access, with my master copy of
> everything on the wrong end of a dialup line. The second allows
> multiple 'pat' commands; I use this to select sets of mailboxes by name
> when no single pattern will fit the exact set I want.

I'll certainly consider it. However, there's been a patch pending to do 
exactly this for a _long_ time in the Debian BTS [1] - so don't 
exactly hold your breath for it to be excluded.

That said, I'm currently spending very little time on mailsync, 
co-developpers or someone taking over responsibility for mailsync would be 
wellcome.

> The patches are against 5.2.1, but they're pretty small and so I
> imagine they'd merge into CVS well. If not give a shout and I'll adapt
> them.

CVS has very little changes as of now, so that should be OK.

> BTW with 4.2.2 I used to only have to give a password once per mailsync
> run, but with 5.2.1 I now have to give it many times (I have an
> aversion to storing my password in plaintext). Is there a reason for
> this or is it a bug?

You can find more info on this here [2] and here[3]. We'd need to fine 
tune opening the connection (O_READONLY, O_HALFOPEN) depending on the 
capabilities of the mailbox, which can be queried through c-client.

> Thanks for a great program!

Thanks for the thanks, apart from sometimes enjoying coding, positive 
feedback is what drops motivation coins in for me to maintain mailsync,
*t

[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=110480
[2] https://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=6042471&forum_id=11853
[3] https://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=5785437&forum_id=11853

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