setacl and getacl look to be already "Cyrus" specific (according the doc), why not to extend imaplib a little bit more ?
Here are some code I wrote and tested to support cyrus "expire" that manage how long a message can stay into a mailbox. This is usefull for NEWS server ! The code is preceded by lot of sample. I wrote the 2 generic functions getannotation and setannotation that coul be used with any IMAP server. And use them to access the Cyrus extensions ! I tried to use http://www.potaroo.net/ietf/all-ids/draft-daboo-imap- annotatemore-00.txt but used a lot TCPDUMP to compare with cyradm :-) Any chances to see this small part of me into the official python release ? """IMAP4 Client Extend default python imaplib to include ANNOTATION as described in http://www.potaroo.net/ietf/all-ids/draft-daboo-imap-annotatemore-00.txt This extention is used by cyrus imap, for exemple to manage automatique removale of expired mail based on '/vendor/cmu/cyrus-imapd/expir' annotation """ """ Some usage >>> i.getannotation('user/[EMAIL PROTECTED]', '"*"', '"value.shared"') >>> i.getannotation('user/[EMAIL PROTECTED]', '/vendor/cmu/cyrus-imapd/expire', >>> '"value.shared"') ('OK', ['"user/[EMAIL PROTECTED]" "/vendor/cmu/cyrus-imapd/ expire" ("value.shared" "44")']) >>> i.getannotation('user/[EMAIL PROTECTED]', '/vendor/cmu/cyrus-imapd/expire', >>> '("value.shared")') ('OK', ['"user/[EMAIL PROTECTED]" "/vendor/cmu/cyrus-imapd/ expire" ("value.shared" "44")']) >>> i.getannotation('user/[EMAIL PROTECTED]', '/vendor/cmu/cyrus-imapd/expire', >>> '("*")') ('OK', ['"user/[EMAIL PROTECTED]" "/vendor/cmu/cyrus-imapd/ expire" ("value.shared" "44" "content-type.shared" "text/plain" "size.shared" "2" "modifiedsince.shared" "1156264470")']) >>> i.getannotation('user/[EMAIL PROTECTED]', '/vendor/cmu/cyrus-imapd/expire', >>> '("value.shared" "content-type.shared")') ('OK', ['"user/[EMAIL PROTECTED]" "/vendor/cmu/cyrus-imapd/ expire" ("value.shared" "44" "content-type.shared" "text/plain")']) >>> i.setannotation('user/[EMAIL PROTECTED]', '/vendor/cmu/cyrus-imapd/expire', >>> '("value.shared" "44")') ('OK', [None]) >>> i.setannotation('user/[EMAIL PROTECTED]', '/vendor/cmu/cyrus-imapd/expire', >>> '("value.shared" NIL)') ('OK', [None]) >>> i.getannotation('user/[EMAIL PROTECTED]', '/vendor/cmu/cyrus-imapd/expire', >>> '("value.shared")') ('OK', [None]) some more >>> i=cyrusimap.CYRUSIMAP4('localhost') >>> i.login('manager', 'password') ('OK', ['User logged in']) >>> i.getcyrusexpire("user/[EMAIL PROTECTED]") ('OK', 0) >>> i.setcyrusexpire("user/[EMAIL PROTECTED]", 88) ('OK', [None]) >>> i.getcyrusexpire("user/[EMAIL PROTECTED]") ('OK', 88) >>> i.setcyrusexpire("user/[EMAIL PROTECTED]", None) ('OK', [None]) >>> i.getcyrusexpire("user/[EMAIL PROTECTED]") ('OK', 0) """ import imaplib imaplib.Commands.update( { 'GETANNOTATION': ('AUTH', 'SELECTED'), 'SETANNOTATION': ('AUTH', 'SELECTED'), }) class CYRUSIMAP4(imaplib.IMAP4): def getannotation(self, root, entry, attrib): """Get annotation (typ, [data]) = <instance>.getannotation(self, root, entry, attrib) """ typ, dat = self._simple_command('GETANNOTATION', root, entry, attrib) return self._untagged_response(typ, dat, 'ANNOTATION') def setannotation(self, root, entry, value): """Set annotation value. (typ, [data]) = <instance>.setannotation(root, limits) """ typ, dat = self._simple_command('SETANNOTATION', root, entry, value) return self._untagged_response(typ, dat, 'ANNOTATION') def getcyrusexpire(self, root): """Get cyrus 'expire' annotation value. (typ, [data]) = <instance>.getcyrusexpire(root) """ typ, dat=self.getannotation(root, '/vendor/cmu/cyrus-imapd/ expire', '("value.shared")') if typ!='OK': return typ, dat if dat[0]==None: return typ, 0 # ['"user/[EMAIL PROTECTED]" "/vendor/cmu/cyrus-imapd/ expire" ("value.shared" "44")']) v=int(dat[0].split(None,2)[2].strip('()').split(None,1) [1].strip('"')) return typ, v def setcyrusexpire(self, root, value): """Get cyrus 'expire' annotation value. (typ, [data]) = <instance>.setcyrusexpire(root, value) """ if value==None or value==0: v='NIL' else: v='"%d"' % (value,) return self.setannotation(root, '/vendor/cmu/cyrus-imapd/ expire', '("value.shared" %s)'%(v,)) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
