Ross Patterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Tino Keitel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 23:04:47 +0200, Vincent Aravantinos wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I have made a little program to handle imap idle. It just connect >>> to the imap server, send the idle command, and when it receives >>> the message informing about new mail, launches the app of your >>> choice (eg. getmail, mbsync or offlineimap). >>> >>> Maybe there already exist such an app ? If yes I could not find it... >> >> If you have SSH access to you mail server, and the mail server stores >> the mails in maildir format, you can use mswatch from >> http://mswatch.sourceforge.net/. > > I also built http://pypi.python.org/pypi/rpatterson.mailsync to > integrate mswatch and offlineimap (also optionally Gnus).
I forgot to mention that one of the advantages of the mswatch approach to IMAP IDLE is that IMAP IDLE can only handle one folder while mswatch (and thus also rpatterson.mailsync) can respond to changes to multiple folders. Ross ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ isync-devel mailing list isync-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/isync-devel
