Re: Multiple Accounts

[Sweth Chandramouli <offlineimap@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday, 20 October 2005 at 00:37:58 EDT,
   Jon Riddle (<list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>) wrote:
> But I don't want to set the defaults for everything.  I want to define a
> remote repository and a local repository (both IMAP servers in my case)
> and have one account section per user, with usernames and passwords in
> each section.

Actually, what you really seem to want is to not have to deal with the
repetitive task of entering the same info for each account and repository
multiple times; the easiest solution to that problem isn't adding bloat
to offlineimap, but instead just scripting the generation of your
offlineimaprc:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;
my ($localhost, $remotehost) = ('host1', 'host2');

my %passwd_from_user = map { chomp; split (/,/ => $_) } <ARGV>;
print "[general]\n";
print "accounts = " . join (',' => sort keys %passwd_from_user) . "\n\n";
for my $userid (sort keys %passwd_from_user) {
        print <<"EOF"
[Account $userid]
localrepository = ${localhost}_$userid
remoterepository = ${remotehost}_$userid

[Repository ${localhost}_$userid]
type = IMAP
remotehost = $localhost
remoteuser = $userid
remotepass = $passwd_from_user{$userid}

[Repository ${remotehost}_$userid]
type = IMAP
remotehost = $remotehost
remoteuser = $userid
remotepass = $passwd_from_user{$userid}

EOF
};
__END__

will take as input a file like:

user1,pass1
user2,pass2
user3,pass3

and generate as output:

[general]
accounts = user1,user2,user3

[Account user1]
localrepository = host1_user1
remoterepository = host2_user1

[Repository host1_user1]
type = IMAP
remotehost = host1
remoteuser = user1
remotepass = pass1

[Repository host2_user1]
type = IMAP
remotehost = host2
remoteuser = user1
remotepass = pass1

[Account user2]
localrepository = host1_user2
remoterepository = host2_user2

[Repository host1_user2]
type = IMAP
remotehost = host1
remoteuser = user2
remotepass = pass2

[Repository host2_user2]
type = IMAP
remotehost = host2
remoteuser = user2
remotepass = pass2

[Account user3]
localrepository = host1_user3
remoterepository = host2_user3

[Repository host1_user3]
type = IMAP
remotehost = host1
remoteuser = user3
remotepass = pass3

[Repository host2_user3]
type = IMAP
remotehost = host2
remoteuser = user3
remotepass = pass3

-- Sweth.  (Yes, it's perl, not python.  It still gets the job done.)

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