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imap support?

 [1/5] from: maximo:meteorstudios at: 12-May-2004 19:46


I was using imap to access an exchange server and was wondering why rtf messages where converted to html in the data returned by the server... is it because rebol is not identifying itself as an rtf aware application ? using view 1.2.46 is there a way for me to get the rtf version of a mail? is it also possible to get more than just the mails? like the folder data and in what folder, a mail has been placed? are there any tools, schemes or scripts which would allow me or help me to make an exchange mail client in rebol? thanks for any info! -MAx

 [2/5] from: maximo::meteorstudios::com at: 13-May-2004 11:07


I might add that there seems to be mailbox support in the imap protocol, I just don't know how to form the url to get that information. if its in the returned mails... how do I know what mailbox a specific mail is in? -MAx

 [3/5] from: maximo:meteorstudios at: 13-May-2004 11:40


ok, well know I discovered that using imap we must trail the url with the folder we want... for example url: imap://user:[pass--server]/rebol-ml but still no sight of how to get the mailbox list for any given mailbox or for the root ... I thought imap://user:[pass--server]// or imap://user:[pass--server]/. would have been easy ways to encode it, but it does not work... any one have ideas? -MAx

 [4/5] from: gchiu:compkarori at: 14-May-2004 12:29


Maxim Olivier-Adlhoch wrote.. apparently on 13-May-2004/11:40:28-4:00
>ok, well know I discovered that using imap we must trail the url with the folder we want... > >for example > >url: imap://user:[pass--server]/rebol-ml >
Hi Max There's a bug in the current stable Rebol release with Imap that has been fixed in the betas. This bug prevents you opening up a mailbox twice in the same session. Over the last 40,000+ mail list messages, I count only 3 people interested in IMAP :( Maarten claims to have once got the list of mailboxes once but was not able to repeat that. Basically, my understanding is that Holger implemented as much of IMAP so that it had POP functionality. Everything else is not there. Having said that, you should be able to use Rebol to do what you want but not using the IMAP protocol. I recently had to rename some folders etc, and was able to telnet into my IMAP server to do this. Hope that helps. -- Graham Chiu http://www.compkarori.com/cerebrus http://www.compkarori.com/rebolml

 [5/5] from: moliad:aei:ca at: 13-May-2004 22:18


Yeah I saw those mails... Might send Maarten a mail directly... maybe he remembers... I read a little of the imap rfc and as such it does support a lot of things, I'm sure we can list mailboxes, cause otherwise there is no point in using imap... servers generally support pop before imap... and imap's main differenciating feature is mailboxes (any maybe an encrypted password...) thanks anyhow, I think this is a case for sending a mail to feedback... still if anyone has an anwser... I'm listening... I'd basically like to create a mailer which replaces outlook/exchange client for all of us who must endure an exchange server as a user... at least for the mailing... btw, so far, all my tests where flawless on reading mails through imap. I just find the html conversion thing a bit strange... I'm not sure if that's how exchange always sends mails to its clients. maybe I could see if I might add a few more commands to the imap protocol... given time and further outlook frustrations... I'm secretly thinking of using cerebrus with imap to have better mail filtering cause I'm getting a slew of spam at work... but since my time is sparse during the summer... I don't know when/if that is all possible... -MAx ----- Original Message ----- From: "Graham Chiu" <[gchiu--compkarori--co--nz]> To: <[rebol-list--rebol--com]> Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2004 8:29 PM Subject: [REBOL] Re: imap support?
> Maxim Olivier-Adlhoch wrote.. apparently on 13-May-2004/11:40:28-4:00 > >ok, well know I discovered that using imap we must trail the url with the
folder we want...
> > > >for example
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> Hi Max > There's a bug in the current stable Rebol release with Imap that has been
fixed in the betas. This bug prevents you opening up a mailbox twice in the same session.
> Over the last 40,000+ mail list messages, I count only 3 people interested in
IMAP :( Maarten claims to have once got the list of mailboxes once but was not able to repeat that.
> Basically, my understanding is that Holger implemented as much of IMAP so that
it had POP functionality. Everything else is not there.
> Having said that, you should be able to use Rebol to do what you want but not
using the IMAP protocol. I recently had to rename some folders etc, and was able to telnet into my IMAP server to do this.

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