Re: New to Zoe - couple questions...

On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 23:38:17 +0100
Zoe <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Josh,
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> On Mar 14, 2005, at 23:13, Josh Trutwin wrote:
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> > 1.) Run a script once a month that copies any mail from my IMAP
> > folders that are over one month old to an alternate location for
> > Zoe in mbox format.
> >
> > 2.) Run the Zoe import procedure on these messages.
> >
> > 3.) Upon successful import, remove the messages from my email
> > account since they are now indexed by Zoe.
> >
> > Does that seem plausible?
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> Sure. You can definitively push data to ZO=CB instead of having ZO=CB
> pull  them by itself.
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> One thing though: presently there is no publicly available API to=20
> programmatically trigger an import. You will either need to do that=20
> manually (e.g. press the import button) or script the Web UI one way
> or  another if you want to fully automatize your script.

I swear I saw something in the wiki for command line import, now that
I look again though I see what you mean.

> An alternative to the import is to have your script email the
> messages  directly to ZO=CB by using the application built-in SMTP
> server. That way  you would not need to create an intermediary mbox,
> nor mess around with  the Web UI simply to trigger an import.

Thanks for the tip, I might just do this instead, seems a little
easier for scripting.  Does this do anything with the message
threading or is it able to keep the original message sent date?

> If you think in terms of pipes, then ZO=CB's SMTP server could be
> viewed  has one of its standard input.

Thanks for the feedback, I'll be in contact most likely, this isn't my
top priority right now, but it's something I definately want to get
moving in the next month or so...

Josh



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