Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name : imaplibext Version : 0.7.6 Upstream Author : Thomas Ward <tew...@ubuntu.com> * URL : https://gitlab.com/teward/imaplibext * License : AGPL-3+ Programming Lang: Python Description : Python imaplib extension library providing UID-based commands
imaplibext is a Python library compatible with Python 2 and Python 3 which extends the existing imaplib library to provide commands which utilize UID- based commands instead of the way the imaplib currently does commands. This allows for better interaction with individual messages, including when manipulating flags, etc. in a way that won't affect other messages. A long time ago, I started working on a ListServ product internally with a company and we couldn't manipulate messages to mark them as unread easily because we were not using UID-based commands. This led to some StackOverflow questions on best approach to fixing this, which was to make all calls via UID calls (imaplib.IMAP4(...).uid(...)). These UID commands ended up being lengthy when directly called, and I realized this was going to cause problems, so I created imaplibext as a wrapper around imaplib to utilize all commands as UID command calls instead of the command calls as they were in pure imaplib. This permitted easier modifications to email messages and to make sure that the message we're working with was actually the message we were manipulating. I personally use this in all my Python projects which relate to using IMAP email, and this is in use in several projects at the workplace by several developers. There are more and more projects created as well that are Python 3 in origin which are using this at work, including on several private listserv deployments I have with customized ListServ software; this software utilizes imaplibext, and if it was possible to have this included in Debian it'd make things a lot easier and have one less thing that has to be pulled in through PyPI. Currently, the only way to get this functionality is with imaplib's uid() calls to an IMAP connection. This can get very lengthy when you have to rewrite commands to be properly interact with UID commands. This library overrides the in-built IMAP commands to utilize UID calls and behaves identically to the in- built imaplib commands that it overrides. I plan to maintain this myself, as I actively support the library in PyPI itself as well as in its git repository, and I use it regularly and can fix bugs on it regularly. I am also active regularly downstream in Ubuntu, and because of my levels of activity there, I have no intention of "disappearing" or going away and orphaning the package. I am also regularly reachable via Email and IRC, and can actively commit to keeping this package updated and maintained.
