Re: Pull request - from_date

Luke George <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> In the last days I was looking for a way to discard the retrieval of email
> messages up to a certain date. This is somehow similar to the option
> 'max_message_size' but for dates.

getmail does not know the the actual age or origin time of any messages; all
it knows is, if you do not configure getmail to delete messages immediately
after retrieving them, it can tell "I previously saw this message, first on
<such date>".

> I then realized there is no such feature (yet) available so I decided to
> download the code and dig into it. Long story short I extended the code to
> add this extra option to avoid the download of emails (I called it
> 'from_date')
> 
> So, I would like to hear from you if you might be interested to merge this
> feature into the code base.

Thank you, but no, not really.  The normal way to handle that situation is to
let getmail retrieve all your mail the first time you use it; you can then
manually bulk-delete messages prior to the date of interest in your MUA.
Another option is to delete older mail from your webmail view before
downloading with getmail.  Since you (obviously...) then configure getmail to
only download previously-unseen messages, the old mail will never bother you
again.

An option that only a small fraction of users would ever use, and even then
would only use once, is not a good cost-benefit candidate for inclusion.

Charles
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