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Monthly Archives: June 2004

Functional IMAP snapshotting.

03-Jun-04

It should have been possible to do this with any one of:

fetchmail + procmail

Net::IMAP Perl module

Mail::Box::IMAP4 Perl module

But in reality, it took a little bit of several (Net::IMAP is woefully unprepared for primetime, so it's right out).
Here's what should work with just Perl:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w

# copyright 2004 gabriel rosenkoetter
#
# Reuse and redistribution, modified [...]

What we have here is a failure to communicate…

03-Jun-04

… or, “Windows guys, they Just Don't Get It.”
The Windows muppets are moving to a new Exchange server here at work, which means that they're migrating users' data stores across to the new machine. My datastore is huge, because I never delete email, because I use it for documentation and tracking history in ways that [...]