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 mail, they are doing so using my Dovecot - my Dovecot instance is acting as a proxy, of sorts...
There are already a gazillion email services that do mailbox consolidation--the term for what you're attempting. Why are you reinventing the wheel? Must be a family and the dog project...
A quick browse of your Wordpress blog confirms such. It also explains why you wrote code to create maildir files from scratch. Only a programmer assumes that the first path to a solution is to write new code.
A system administrator on the other hand, most of us here, Google's for suitable FOSS, then looks in his distro repos for it, and builds from source if a package isn't available. We only script when out of Elmer's and duct tape. ;)
-- Stan