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Author: onefang
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Subject: Re: [DNG] Email Backup
On 2024-10-17 16:57:23, Curtis Maurand wrote:
>    OK, can’t type.  Isync to an independent imap server somewhere.  (Apple
>    spell check got the I from in front of map).

>
>      On Oct 17, 2024, at 4:53 PM, Curtis Maurand <curtis@???> wrote:
>      I use something called isync to an independent map server running
>      somewhere.

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>        On Oct 17, 2024, at 6:30 AM, Didier Kryn <kryn@???> wrote:
>        Le 17/10/2024 à 10:47, onefang a écrit :

>
>          On 2024-10-15 10:21:07, Didier Kryn wrote:

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>            Le 14/10/2024 à 11:31, Alessandro Vesely via Dng a écrit :

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>              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.

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>          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.

>
>        --    Didier


Imapfilter looks like it'll not only do this particular job, but also
several other jobs I have been thinking need doing. A general purpose
IMAP wrangler that I can script using my favourite scripting language,
just what I need.

I also need more time to play with these new toys. lol

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