[imapfilter-devel] IMAPFilter 1.1-rc1

[Lefteris Chatzibarbas]

Hello,

Almost a year has passed by since imapfilter's last release...  I
finally finished implementing the IMAP LIST/LSUB commands.  Two new
commands are introduced for this purpose: list() and lsub().  The list()
command gets a list of the mailboxes available to the client, while the
lsub() command gets a list of the subscribed mailboxes.  Additionally,
support for the IMAP CHILDREN (RFC 3348) and IMAP NAMESPACE (RFC 2342)
extensions, that are relating to the IMAP LIST/LSUB commands, has been
also implemented.

The syntax of the list() and lsub() commands is identical:

  mailboxes, folders = list(account, folder)
  mailboxes, folders = lsub(account, folder)

Where "mailboxes" and "folders" are tables containing strings, "account"
is an account table, and "folder" is a string, the hierarchy path or
folder to search for mailboxes.

Lets see how they work through some examples:

  Consider the following folder tree in "myaccount":

  - mbox1
  + dir1
    - mbox2
    - mbox3
  - mbox4
  + dir2
    - mbox5
    - mbox6
    + dir3
      - mbox7
      - mbox8
  - mbox9

  Now lets see some commands and their results:

  --
  mailboxes, folders = list(myaccount, '')
  print(unpack(mailboxes))
    mbox1    mbox4    mbox9
  print(unpack(folders))
    dir1     dir2
  --
  mailboxes, folders = list(myaccount, 'dir1')
  print(unpack(mailboxes))
    mbox2    mbox3
  print(unpack(folders))
    
  --
  mailboxes, folders = list(myaccount, 'dir2')
  print(unpack(mailboxes))
    mbox5    mbox6
  print(unpack(folders))
    dir3
  --
  mailboxes, folders = list(myaccount, 'dir2/dir3')
  print(unpack(mailboxes))
    mbox7    mbox8
  print(unpack(folders))
    
  --

  Simple enough? No? Heh... Well, I'm here for questions...


Also, some new program options have been added: the "-e" option, that
allows execution of a string from the command line without loading a
configuration file (like Perl's "-e 'command'" option), and the "-i"
option that can be used to enter interactive mode (like Python's "-i"
option) after executing the configuration file or the command line.

Of course, there is a long list of internal improvements and some bug
fixes...


IMAPFilter version 1.1-rc1:

http://imapfilter.hellug.gr/source/imapfilter-1.1-rc1.tar.gz (36K)
http://imapfilter.hellug.gr/source/imapfilter-1.1-rc1.tar.gz.sig
MD5 (imapfilter-1.1-rc1.tar.gz) = 0d7db74a90fa6aa4a0b3edac93b05115

http://imapfilter.hellug.gr/source/imapfilter-1.1-rc1.tar.bz2 (31K)             
http://imapfilter.hellug.gr/source/imapfilter-1.1-rc1.tar.bz2.sig
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