Re: [9front] upas/fs: copy messages between IMAP folders

[risto.salminen@gmx.com]

Hello,

sl wrote:
> not sure I understand the problem clearly, but I copy messages from mbox to other folders via imap every day.

If it is possible to copy messages in some way already,
then there is indeed something that I do not understand.

Normally I open my mailbox as

  ; echo open /imaps/$mailserver/$mailuser mbox >/mail/fs/ctl

where $mailserver and $mailuser contain the actual server
and user values, so that then /mail/fs/mbox contains the
IMAP folder that I can open with just running 'mail'.
Then I open my archive folder as

  ; echo open /imaps/$mailserver/$mailuser/Archive Archive >/mail/fs/ctl

so that /mail/fs/Archive contains the archive, which can
be opened by running 'mail' and then 'mb Archive'.
If I now do

  ; upas/mbappend Archive /mail/fs/mbox/$id/raw

I get the message in /mail/box/$user/Archive, which is
just a local folder.  If I do

  ; upas/mbappend /imaps/$mailserver/$mailuser/Archive /mail/fs/mbox/$id/raw

then I get back 'mbappend somepid: fail', because obviously
this is not the correct way to do it.  If I do

  ; upas/mbappend /mail/fs/Archive /mail/fs/mbox/$id/raw

which would perhaps seem sensible, I also get back
'mbappend somepid: fail', this time because upas/fs
indeed disallows opening files inside /mail/fs/ folders
for writing.

Therefore, I have used the configuration in my patches
for some time, because I could not figure out any other
way to do this.

Perhaps someone would like to enlighten me how this is
supposed to work.

Thanks,
rsal