[Gambas-user] Support for IMAP in gb.net.curl

[Tony Morehen]

To support a dynamic email account (one with new messages and deleted 
messages) and to implement the Idle and Notify commands, I need to 
handle server notifications.  What I plan to do is implement a monitor 
loop which will do a readline on the input from the server.  Each new 
line will be tested to see if it is a notification.  If so, the 
appropriate action will be taken.  If it's not a notification, it will 
be printed to a buffer stream. Currently, commands are directly sent to 
the server socket and replies are read directly from the same socket.  
In the new approach, replies will be read from the buffer.

One complication is that I must ensure that all the CRLFs in the buffer 
must remain intact.  Another complication is that I cannot just do a 
readline on a blocking stream.  There maybe some time between 
notifications, which would normally cause the readline to timeout.  Idle 
and Notify commands can wait for 20 minutes or more.

Comments? Suggestions?  I'd really appreciate advice on the best way to 
handle this.


On 2017-09-23 09:09 PM, Tony Morehen wrote:
> Just a quick update on an Imap class.  The following methods have been 
> implemented and, for the most part, tested:
>
> Abort, AddMessageFlags, Authed, BuildSequenceSet, Capabilities,
> CleanUpMailBoxList, Connect, CopyMessage, CopyMessages, CreateMailbox, 
> Debug,
> DeleteMailbox, DeleteMessage, DeleteMessages, Encrypt, Exec, Expunge,
> FindValue, GetMessage, GetMessageFlags, Host, LSub, List, ListMailboxes,
> ListSubscribedMailboxes, Logout, MailboxInfo, MailboxStatus, 
> MoveMessage, MoveMessages, Noop, Password, Port, RemoveMessageFlags,
> RenameMailbox, Search, SelectMailbox, SetMessageFlags, User, Welcome
>
> The testing has been done on a static email account.  As a result, 
> copy, move and delete messages have not been properly tested. I'll 
> follow up on that in another message.
>
>
>
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