Re: Pull request - from_date

Ok, no problem at all. I'll write a patch for myself.

Thanks for the answer.

Luke

On 4/20/20 9:05 PM, Charles Cazabon wrote:
> 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