Re: IMAP as mail-source (pgnus v0.98)

[Simon Josefsson <jas@pdc.kth.se>]

Ulf Betlehem <flu@iki.fi> writes:

>         I tried using IMAP as an alternative to POP and it works ok,
>         except that I was unable to find a way of automatically deleting
>         messages (as in actually removing them from the server) after
>         transferring them to my machine.

I've added two new keywords `fetchflag' and `dontexpunge', and changed
the default behaviour -- the imap mail-source now put a \Deleted mark
on all fetched articles, and expunge:s the mailbox by default.

See the manual for details.

>         Another nuisance is that it keeps asking for my password
>         every time I fetch mail, regardless of what I answer at the
>         "Store password for this session?"  prompt.

This is because every time the IMAP mail-source is run, it creates a
new buffer for the server connection, and then destroy that buffer. I
guess it could keep the buffer around after each run, and use a
variable to map mail-source:s into the right buffer.