Re: Status of version 5?

[Hans-Christian Prytz <hp@xxxxxxxxx>]

Dan Sheridan wrote:

>Hans-Christian Prytz <hp@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
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>>>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.)
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>>>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.  :-)
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>>I have looked into it a bit, and I won't have time to both learn Python 
>>and the layout of your program :-(
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>>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/
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>>Would this be a difficult thing to implement? I can help test it.
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>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. 
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>        Dan.
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Sounds good. But is there a list archive somewhere? I can't find any
mention of it on the webpage, and complete.org doesn't seem to be
working (it's "Temporarily Unavailable")

Hans-Christian