[imapfilter-devel]archiving with imapfilter

[Martin Kaehmer]

Hi Lefteris,

--On Montag, März 03, 2003 20:13:19 +0200 Lefteris Chatzibarbas
<lefcha at hellug.gr> wrote:

> A part of the functionality you are describing, exists in the CVS version
> of imapfilter, for quite some time now.

yes, saw it - after I started coding ;o)
 
> On the other hand, imapfilter sends searching queries, it doesn't process
> each message exclusively, so it cannot sort messages to folders the way
> you describe (it is not impossible but difficult and inefficient, based
> on how the program exploits the IMAP4rev1 protocol's capabilities).
> 
> I couldn't come up with a good way to accomplish something like this.

as you said, you have to process each message exclusively (at least I don't
care about efficiency) Take the action_move as an example:

    if (destdir contains '$') {
        fetch for all messages BODY.PEEK[HEADER.FIELDS (DATE)]
            parse DATE
            substitute $d, $m and $y in destdir
            copy message to destdir
    } else {
        copy all messages to destdir
    }
    delete all messages from srcdir

I have already started coding this function, cause I want to see whether
it's feasible that way or not. Do you see anything why it shouldn't work ? 

cheers, 
Martin