[Dovecot] get the messages ID after APPEND

Christian Fischer mail at computerdichter.de
Fri Apr 16 23:56:59 EEST 2010


Timo Sirainen schrieb:
> On Fri, 2010-04-16 at 15:37 +0200, Christian Fischer wrote:
>   
>> Hi there!
>>
>> I am new to imap "Command Line" and trying to write a script doing the 
>> following on a dovecot imap server:
>> - APPEND a message (e.g. to Drafts)
>> - get the ID to reopen the message for reading
>>
>> In short: How do i get the ID back from the APPEND command or which 
>> command has to be invoked to get the uid of the newly added message?
>>     
>
> By ID do you mean message's IMAP UID?
>
>   
>> dovecot --version
>> 1.0.15
>>     
>
> v1.1+ supports UIDPLUS extension that gives you the UID immediately in
> the APPEND reply. 
This sounds great!
Do you know where to get the Packages for debian lenny?
And which configuration is needed afterwards?

Thank you thank you thank you!

> With v1.0 you'd have to do something ugly like
> selecting the mailbox and searching for the message based on Message-ID:
> header or something..
>   




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