Re: backup and synchronize to fastmail

On Thu, 15 May 2008, Asheesh Laroia wrote:

> Yes.  You could perhaps use SSH keys to connect to your
IMAP server.

I do not have shell access to the departmental or fastmail
imap servers, so I
do not know how I could do that.

> What does it mean to run it in the background but
prompt for passwords when
> it runs?

I launch imapfilter on the command line, it prompts me the
for the password of
the departmental imap server, and after receiving it goes to
the background.

Alejandro Jakubi

On Thu May 15 2008 3:51:20 pm Alejandro Jakubi wrote:
> On Thu, 15 May 2008, Asheesh Laroia wrote:
> > Yes.  You could perhaps use SSH keys to connect to
your IMAP server.
>
> I do not have shell access to the departmental or
fastmail imap servers,
> so I do not know how I could do that.
>
> > What does it mean to run it in the background but
prompt for passwords
> > when it runs?
>
> I launch imapfilter on the command line, it prompts me
the for the
> password of the departmental imap server, and after
receiving it goes to
> the background.

That is not quite as practical for OfflineIMAP, since it may
need to request 
a password at any time.  Say you launch offlineimap and
leave it running for 
a month.  15 days after you launch it, you change your
password on the IMAP 
server.  A little later on, you move a whole bunch of mail,
and offlineimap 
wants to open another connection to the IMAP server for its
multithreaded 
support.  But the password you entered when you started it
up no longer 
works, so it needs to prompt you for a password.

Granted, this is a rare situation, but it exists.

However, patches to go into the background after reading the
password would 
be accepted.

-- John