Re: Pull request - from_date

On 20-04-2020 21:18, Luke George wrote:
> 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
>
> Ok, no problem at all. I'll write a patch for myself.

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> Thanks for the answer.
> 
> Luke


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