Re: Status of version 5?

[Dan Sheridan <djs52@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hans-Christian Prytz <hp@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>Unless it is really easy to support nnmaildir... (I really don't kow
>>how it works; if it's only trivially different than what we do now, that
>>would be doable.)
>>
>>Python is not hard to learn; if you already grok a couple of programming
>>languages, especially object-oriented ones, you can probably pick it up
>>in an hour or two.  Grokking Twisted and IMAP actually take longer, I
>>think.  :-)
>>
>
> I have looked into it a bit, and I won't have time to both learn Python 
> and the layout of your program :-(
>
> However I hvae looked into how nnimap stores it's marks, and what would 
> be needed to preserve the normal (only really need read/unread) marks.
> It really is surprisingly simple. Given a filename for a message in form 
> "uniq:marks" in the normal cur/ directory within a maildir folder, 
> nnimap stores marks as seperate file within subfolders of .nnmaildir/

> Would this be a difficult thing to implement? I can help test it.


Take a look at the patch I sent to this list a couple of months
ago. It implements reading and writing nnmaildir marks in offlineimap
version 4 alongside the proper maildir marks. I haven't looked at
version 5 yet, though, so I don't know how hard it would be. 

        Dan.
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