[imapfilter-devel] ANN/RFC: IMAPfs 0.0.1 -- built on top of IMAPFilter and LUSE

[Hans-Werner Hilse]

Hi,

for those who are interested in what imapfilter can be used for, I
decided to make this short study public.

IMAPfs is built using imapfilter (version 2, and a revision with a
working select_all()!) and LUSE, the FUSE Lua binding (see
http://luse.luaforge.net/).

It exports an IMAP mail store as a file system which resembles the
maildir format.

ATM, it's mainly an exercise, but I think it might be useful enough
already to have an excuse to bother all readers of this ML with it ;)

You can, for example, tar up your IMAP folders using this. Or use it to
feed spamassassin. Or let some indexing program index your mails. Or
whatever. I would be very happy to hear what you think about it and if
there are further useful improvements. I was thinking about an "append"
functionality, mail removal (through unlinking the file) and other
stuff...

On the other hand, you can see that IMAPFilter is _very_ flexible
through the use of Lua!

Since it's just 8kB, I risk appending the program here...

-hwh
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