Re: [Patch] IMAP goes GIO

[Jack <ostroffjh users sourceforge net>]

On 2018.05.12 15:20, Peter Bloomfield wrote:
> On 05/12/2018 01:44:40 PM Sat, Albrecht Dreß wrote:
> > sorry for the long delay – after a long time, I now have a /very/  
> > preliminary patch for moving Balsa's IMAP support to GIO, via the  
> > libnetclient component.  First, I tried to re-write larger parts of  
> > libbalsa/imap, and failed miserably, due to the complexity of the  
> > protocol and the implementation in Balsa.
> ☺
> > The approach I implemented is an extra layer on top of libnetclient,  
> > simulating the character-based approach of libbalsa/imap.  There is  
> > room for improvement (e. g. as libnetclient *guarantees* lines are  
> > CRLF terminated, there is no need for extra checks in the IMAP  
> > layer).  At least, the result is working for me.  However, it is not  
> > yet finished (read: suitable for human consumption…), but I would  
> > highly appreciate if you could try the current status.  As the patch  
> > is huge, please load it from  
> > <http://www.mynetcologne.de/~nc-dreszal/IMAP-Netclient.diff.bz2>.
> >
> > One not yet finished part (apart from thorough testing) is that the  
> > logic for configuring a IMAP account (in src/folder-conf.c) is not  
> > fully functional.  Hovever, this module shares a lot of /almost/  
> > duplicated code with src/mailbox-conf.c, which should be re-factored  
> > if possible.
> >
> > As always, any comment is really welcome!
>
> Thanks for the huge patch, and the huge effort that went into it!
>
> The patch applied cleanly, and Balsa built and is running. So far, no  
> debug output when running with G_MESSAGES_DEBUG=imap; is that the  
> correct G_LOG_DOMAIN? I can't tell whether Balsa is really talking to  
> my IMAP server…

Also builds and runs OK for me, but so far only POP3, which I suppose  
hasn't changed.

Question: Right now, I have Thunderbird set up for IMAP access to all  
my email accounts, which I use either when I get a POP3 download error  
(increasingly rare) or to check the server's SPAM folder, since POP3 no  
longer downloads those files.  I'd be quite happy to use Balsa for  
that, but I don't want it to bother checking IMAP under normal  
circumstances.  Is my easiest solution to just create a separate user  
with a completely separate Balsa config?  I'll definitely try that,  
just to test the IMAP access (yahoo, gmail, and privateemail.com.) Is  
there any sort of "profile" feature I could use?  Is there any point in  
making that a (low priority) wish list?

Jack