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

[Lefteris Chatzimparmpas]

On Sat, Oct 27, 2007 at 05:26:34PM +0200, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote:
> 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 ;)

Hello

No bother at all, that's quite interesting.

> 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...

Some really nice ideas in there.  You might consider putting it
somewhere, since it seems you plan on making it more featured.

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

It's all thanks to Lua.  As I said before, I have plans to make it more
flexible for everyone else and more useful for Lua by modularizing it.

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