My goal is to bundle an IMAP proxy usable by endusers to sanitize email attachments transparently.

I am the maintainer of PyCIRClean and I'm going to write a python script that takes an email as input, lookup the attachment(s) with a script similar to this one, reattach the payload and return a "sanitized" email.

My question is the following: is there an easy way to hook a module to imapfw? I didn't find it in the documentation, sorry if I missed it.

Hello Nicolas,
I read the sad blog entry about the 2016 GSoC and how Gentoo organization didn't select imapfw because another project was more relevant to the their operating system distro.

I wanted to encourage you to try it again with an OfflineIMAP.org organization (similar to jisti.org which is also tiny, and many other small github organizations) and apply for the next GSoC.
https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/organizations/?sp-page=3

"What are the eligibility requirements for a mentoring organization?

To be eligible to participate as a mentoring organization, you must be a group running an active free/open source software project, e.g. BRL-CAD. The project does not need to be a legally incorporated entity. Mentoring organizations must have already produced and released software under an Open Source Initiative approved license and have at least two contributors to serve as organization administrators and/or mentors for the entire program in order to participate in the program."

https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/faq

Nicolas:

This isn't so much an issue as it is a question about how I might best offer assistance. I didn't find an email address on your account or on the website, so I thought I'd start here.

I have a long history of development, but I'm new to this specific area. I'd really like to learn more about it and I generally learn best by digging in and doing some work.

Let me know

Joe (CreativelyMe)

I'm looking for a backup mentor or secondary mentor. Please, apply!
http://offlineimap.org/gsoc/

I am currently using offlineimap and only fetch my "All Mail" folder from Gmail and get my labels using the X-keywords header. I was however wondering if it would be possible to do de-duplication of mail by hard linking email identified identical email across folders when e.g. working with Gmail.

Is this something that has been discussed for imapfw?

Given this BT:

CRITICAL: Account.0.Driver.0 unhandled error occurred while reacting to event ('connect', (), {}): abort: IMAP4 protocol error: no response after 2 secs
ERROR   : IMAP4 protocol error: no response after 2 secs
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/michael/workspace/imapfw/imapfw/edmp.py", line 404, in react
    self._cache[topic] = self._react(topic, args, kwargs)
  File "/home/michael/workspace/imapfw/imapfw/edmp.py", line 382, in _react
    return func(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/home/michael/workspace/imapfw/imapfw/drivers/imap.py", line 31, in connect
    return self.imap.connect(host, port)
  File "/home/michael/workspace/imapfw/imapfw/imap/imap.py", line 125, in connect
    self.imap = imaplib2.IMAP4(host, port, debug=3, timeout=2)
  File "/home/michael/workspace/imapfw/imapfw/imap/imaplib3/imaplib2.py", line 372, in __init__
    self.welcome = self._request_push(name='welcome', tag='continuation').get_response('IMAP4 protocol error: %s')[1]
  File "/home/michael/workspace/imapfw/imapfw/imap/imaplib3/imaplib2.py", line 188, in get_response
    raise typ(exc_fmt % str(val))
imapfw.imap.imaplib3.imaplib2.abort: IMAP4 protocol error: no response after 2 secs

It would be nice to be able to set this on a per-connection level in the rascal file. And in any case, two seconds seem to be really short. I guess a sane default would be at least 10 seconds, probably even 30.

I'm currently trying to decide between offlineimap, imapfw and mbsync/isync.

As such, a comparison between all three of them would be nice to help people decide, but is probably out of scope here - but since you're familiar with at least offlineimap and imapfw and slightly competing against your previous stable software here: how does offlineimap compare to imapfw, and what's the status, what's supported by each one of them and what isn't, and so on. Is there an overview somewhere?

Hi,

The readme suggests that imapfw will use UIDPLUS and/or UID MOVE capabilities. Is this so? When do you think these capabilities might be implemented.

I believe that offlineimap does not use these capabilities when moving mail between folders. Is that correct? If so, do you think it might be an easy fix?

Thanks,
Colin

Github sucks hard when it comes to notifications.
New releases will be announced here so that watchers can be aware of new releases.

n/t.

This seems to be the minimal rascal file to get some simple IMAP sync going on:

from imapfw.api import engines, types, drivers
MainConf = {'max_sync_accounts': 1}

def configure(ui):
    pass

class ImapLeft(types.Imap):
    conf = dict(backend='imaplib3',
                host='mail.your-server.de',
                port='993',
                username='username1',
                password='password1')
    driver = drivers.Imap

class ImapRight(types.Imap):
    conf = dict(backend='imaplib3',
                host='mail.your-server.de',
                port='993',
                username='username2',
                password='password2')
    driver = drivers.Imap

class MainAccount(types.Account):
    left = ImapLeft
    right = ImapRight

For a simple config file this is an insane amount of verboseness. Why do I need to define configure, if it's totally fine if it doesn't do anything? Why is there no default-configure, if none is provided in the rascal file? Why do I need to set MainConf, if the number of useful processes could perfectly be autodetected, if not provided in the config? Why do I need to specify any backend, if imaplib3 seems to be a sane default for any subclass of types.Imap? Why define a driver, if drivers.Imap is again a sane default?

For the sake of making something actually useful for enduser out of this project, please, provide some sane defaults! I'd also like to suggest to provide an alternative way of configuration using simple yaml files, for anyone who just wants to use the program for simple syncs, without any intention to write programs with it.

def async(topic)

line 294 of imapfw/edmp.py

what about naming it "asyn" or just "asynchronous"

@spaetz Could you please set the record imapfwdoc.offlineimap.org to a CNAME with url www.gitbooks.io.

Notice this is not for github but gitbook.

More details here.