Re: [sup-devel] heliotrope-syncback

[William Morgan <wmorgan-sup@masanjin.net>]

Hi Matthieu,

Reformatted excerpts from Matthieu Rakotojaona's message of 2011-11-02:
> I am playing around with heliotrope, and I've managed to writo a ruby
> script to sync changes you made there in your IMAP mailbox.

Cool!

> When you
> send a mail with GMail, it is automatically added in GMail "Sent"
> mail, so I thought heliotrope could automagically thread it, but I
> haven't tested yet.

That should work.

> The changes in thu imap folder happen like this :
> - search for a thread with the "subject" we are interested in

This is problematic. Message subjects are definitely not unique. You
should match up the Message-Id fields instead, if that's at all possible
with IMAP.

If it's not possible, well, IMAP does have a notion of a per-message
ids, but it's fraught with difficulties...

> I don't know about how the threading happens in heliotrope, but I hope
> both are the same

They will mostly be the same, but it's not guaranteed and you will see
some differences.

> - I've heard the ruby IMAP lib is buggy; what is it exactly ?

In my experience, I haven't found any large bugs, just hard-to-debug
issues in the error-handling, and general slowness (though that is
probably attributable to the IMAP protocol itself).

Keep up the good work!
-- 
William <wmorgan-sup@masanjin.net>
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