Re: [Dovecot] Creating Maildir and populating with emails via external Python process

2012-10-25 Thread Bradley Rintoul
Cool. Thanks for the input. Can you tell me briefly why you'd choose getmail? Thanks again. B. RIntoul From: /dev/rob0 To: dovecot@dovecot.org Sent: Thu, October 25, 2012 1:11:13 PM Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Creating Maildir and populating with email

Re: [Dovecot] Creating Maildir and populating with emails via external Python process

2012-10-25 Thread Bradley Rintoul
t of it. :) Anyway, I really appreciate all the advice and help! From: Stan Hoeppner To: dovecot@dovecot.org Sent: Thu, October 25, 2012 2:02:10 PM Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Creating Maildir and populating with emails via external Python process On 10/25/2

Re: [Dovecot] Creating Maildir and populating with emails via external Python process

2012-10-25 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 10/25/2012 2:13 PM, Bradley Rintoul wrote: > Let's say someone has an account with Yahoo, for example. My Python code is > > fetching email from the user's Yahoo! account and placing it into the > Dovecot > Maildir storage for a particular user. Now when the user retrieves their > ma

Re: [Dovecot] Creating Maildir and populating with emails via external Python process

2012-10-25 Thread Steve Litt
On Thu, 25 Oct 2012 12:13:34 -0700 (PDT), Bradley Rintoul said: > This could be good. I'd never looked into the LDA - I will study up > on it. > > Someone else was helping out here and I thought I'd shed some more > light on what I'm doing here... > > Let's say someone has an account with Yahoo

Re: [Dovecot] Creating Maildir and populating with emails via external Python process

2012-10-25 Thread /dev/rob0
> From: Tom Hendrikx > I'm intrigued by this. Why are you using some self-baked(?) python > script to fetch the mail in stead of using ready-made components > like fetchmail? > > Unless there's a special reason not to, try using the LDA (and > fetchmail/getmail for that matter). > > This sound

Re: [Dovecot] Creating Maildir and populating with emails via external Python process

2012-10-25 Thread Bradley Rintoul
5, 2012 12:41:24 PM Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Creating Maildir and populating with emails via external Python process On 25/10/12 21:13, Bradley Rintoul wrote: > This could be good. I'd never looked into the LDA - I will study up on it. > > Someone else was helping out here and I th

Re: [Dovecot] Creating Maildir and populating with emails via external Python process

2012-10-25 Thread Robert Schetterer
rtge > To: dovecot@dovecot.org > Sent: Thu, October 25, 2012 11:07:26 AM > Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Creating Maildir and populating with emails via > external > Python process > > Bradley Rintoul wrote: > >> I'm using Dovecot to provide IMAP services for Thu

Re: [Dovecot] Creating Maildir and populating with emails via external Python process

2012-10-25 Thread Tom Hendrikx
rtge > To: dovecot@dovecot.org > Sent: Thu, October 25, 2012 11:07:26 AM > Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Creating Maildir and populating with emails via > external > Python process > > Bradley Rintoul wrote: > >> I'm using Dovecot to provide IMAP services for Thunderbird

Re: [Dovecot] Creating Maildir and populating with emails via external Python process

2012-10-25 Thread Steve Litt
On Thu, 25 Oct 2012 15:31:38 -0400, Steve Litt said: > On Thu, 25 Oct 2012 20:06:17 +0200, Sven Hartge said: > > How about injecting the mails into the LDA. It will take care of > > proper delivery without the need for your programm to know the > > internal workings of dovecot. > > What is an LDA

Re: [Dovecot] Creating Maildir and populating with emails via external Python process

2012-10-25 Thread Steve Litt
On Thu, 25 Oct 2012 20:06:17 +0200, Sven Hartge said: > Bradley Rintoul wrote: > > > I'm using Dovecot to provide IMAP services for Thunderbird clients. > > The user's mail is stored in Maildir format and the individual > > emails which the user "receives" are actually downloaded and put > > into

Re: [Dovecot] Creating Maildir and populating with emails via external Python process

2012-10-25 Thread Bradley Rintoul
(Is there an IRC channel?) From: Sven Hartge To: dovecot@dovecot.org Sent: Thu, October 25, 2012 11:07:26 AM Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Creating Maildir and populating with emails via external Python process Bradley Rintoul wrote: > I'm using Dovecot to provide IMAP services for Thund

Re: [Dovecot] Creating Maildir and populating with emails via external Python process

2012-10-25 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 10/25/2012 1:01 PM, Bradley Rintoul wrote: > the individual emails which the user > "receives" are actually downloaded and put into the Maildir "repository" > using a > Python email client (POP3 client). Tell us more about this. This doesn't sound like 'normal' email being fetched from an

Re: [Dovecot] Creating Maildir and populating with emails via external Python process

2012-10-25 Thread Sven Hartge
Bradley Rintoul wrote: > I'm using Dovecot to provide IMAP services for Thunderbird clients. > The user's mail is stored in Maildir format and the individual emails > which the user "receives" are actually downloaded and put into the > Maildir "repository" using a Python email client (POP3 client

[Dovecot] Creating Maildir and populating with emails via external Python process

2012-10-25 Thread Bradley Rintoul
Hello: I'm using Dovecot to provide IMAP services for Thunderbird clients. The user's mail is stored in Maildir format and the individual emails which the user "receives" are actually downloaded and put into the Maildir "repository" using a Python email client (POP3 client). I am trying to