[Kde-pim] More questions about: scripting akonadi

[M. Fioretti]

On Tue, April 15, 2008 12:39 am, Ingo Klöcker wrote:

>
> You can simply deliver your mail to folders in mbox or maildir format as
> you are doing it now. If the mbox/maildir folders are registered with
> Akonadi then Akonadi will automatically pickup the newly delivered
> mail.
>
>
> It would probably help if you would explain what you want to do.

There are two purposes behind all these questions: one is that I may write
an article about Akonadi. The most urgent or concrete reason, however, is
that, over the years, I have developed my own super-customized email
management system and am quite happy about it.

I am trying to understand if akonadi can be _added_ to what I have now, so
I can ADD to all that the advantages that akonadi will offer. Or if I
should
rewrite some parts of my email management scripts in an akonadi-compatible
way.

> To me it's not clear whether using Akonadi makes sense for what you want to
> achieve,

yes, this is exactly the reason why I came here to ask.

> but that's mostly because I don't understand what you want to
> use it for

the first/easiest example that pops to my mind is this: my own MTA delivers
(through procmail) all non-spam messages to TEMP_MAILDIR

a second script, ran by a cron job every minute, scans all the files in
TEMP_MAILDIR and:

messages from some important lists are moved to BULK_INBOX as they are found
messages from less important lists are moved to BULK_INBOX once every hour

the real setup is more complicated, but the concept is the one above:
controlling (as *I* like, and without recurring to digests) the priority
and frequency with which new messages "disturb" me. The question then
becomes, can I keep all this machinery going and just _add_ akonadi to it,
that is can I point Akonadi _only_ to BULK_INBOX, which I'd continue to
"feed" with new messages with the mechanism above?

>From what you wrote I assume the answer is "yes", but I'd like a
confirmation (for the sake of learning, if nothing else).

Thanks again for your patience,
                                    Marco
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