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Author: onefang
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] Email Backup
On 2024-10-17 12:30:49, Didier Kryn wrote:
> Le 17/10/2024 à 10:47, onefang a écrit :
> > On 2024-10-15 10:21:07, Didier Kryn wrote:
> > > Le 14/10/2024 à 11:31, Alessandro Vesely via Dng a écrit :
> > > > On Mon 14/Oct/2024 00:30:07 +0200 Radhitya via Dng wrote:
> > > > > Looks good, but i'm not using Thunderbird :(
> > >
> > >     If your mail server is Imap, I'm pretty sure you could devise your own
> > > sync program in Lua, using Imapfilter.
> > You said my magic word, Lua. B-)
> >
> > I'll look into this Imapfilter some day. I could use it to replace my
> > usual email filter maildrop, that fetchmail feeds email to, that then sorts things
> > into IMAP folders? Never did like the quirks of it's syntax.
> >
>     I remember Lua as a pretty decent high level language, with built-in
> multitasking AFAIR. But my only use case has been Imapfilter config;
> therefore I don't remember the language proper. Have fun.


A quick look at the documentation makes me think I could use it to
replace both fetchmail and maildrop for IMAP. Think I'll like it.

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