Hi, I think I'd like to try using racket as a way to explore relatively simple ways of getting a grip on some mail accounts that have gotten out of hand. Specifically I'd like to be able to - compute some statistics, such as number of mails from various addresses - reorganize / clean-up, say by moving mails into folders according to rules or deleting mails from specific senders older than a given amount
I have done similar things in the past using built-in functions in mail clients such as outlook or entourage. (If thunderbird supports such functions I could use that now, but I haven't found clues that it does; I even looked at AppleScript and began using it to explore, but quickly got pretty frustrated with the language and its documentation.) I like racket, though, and it would seem to be great to be able to try out functions interactively in the REPL. My impression on first glance though, was that the built-in IMAP support would require quite a bit of assembly and additions. I also found SirMail, which looks like more than what I need, though presumably I could make use of its foundation parts if I could figure out which and how. Might it be appropriate to build something between the IMAP basics and SirMail? Alternatively, is there a brief how-to for SirMail? I found the sources on github and they seemed to work immediately, but I have some questions about set-up. Perhaps I could even help write a brief "how to" with input from the authors? (Maybe there are more appropriate, "easier" ways of doing what I want to do that others think of immediately, in which case clues would be appreciated.) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
