> On 17/08/2021 16:14 Brent Busby <br...@jfi.uchicago.edu> wrote: > > > I wondered if it's possible to get the Snarf plugin back, if not in the > official Dovecot distribution, then at least to somehow build the plugin > source on a modern release...because: > > Though the documented purpose for Snarf was to ease migration off of > UW-IMAP, that's not the only thing it was useful for. Unfortunately, > every mailreader that I've seen that can run within Emacs -- and I've > tried Gnus, VM, and RMAIL -- all _require_ the use of a ~/mbox file when > pulling from a local mail spool on the same machine. (This does not > affect IMAP usage of those mailreaders, only local file access.) > > Non-Emacs mailreaders like Alpine and Mutt have sufficiently robust > file-locking safety that they can work on the local mail spool in > /var/spool/mail or /var/mail or what have you directly without copying > your mail somewhere else first, so for Alpine and Mutt, use of ~/mbox is > possible but not necessary. But it seems that for every mailreader that > does run within Emacs, if the mail source is local rather than IMAP, > there is no other way to operate the program than to have it copy your > mail from the spool to ~/mbox. On a system where there are users who > sometimes work that way, doing local mail access in Emacs, and other > times use IMAP via Dovecot, you have a mess without the Snarf plugin. > > I realize this is a peculiar situation, so I don't expect Snarf to > necessarily be put back into Dovecot. I was wondering how it might be > possible to build it today though...for any out there who may use Emacs > for mail most of the time...but occasionally also want Dovecot IMAP on > the same machine where they're normally using an ~/mbox file for Emacs' > sake. UW-IMAP may be dead...but long live GNU Emacs! > > -- > + Brent A. Busby + "We've all heard that a million monkeys
Hi! Simplish way to do this... git revert a02076a2c09a81989aab5f35bda621be86649ea2 and then build dovecot. You can also extract it as patch git show -R a02076a2c09a81989aab5f35bda621be86649ea2 > snarf-plugin.patch Aki
