Add support for Maildir

[ClearlyClaire]

Signed-off-by: Thibaut Girka thib@sitedethib.com

[wking]

On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 11:22:38AM -0700, ThibG wrote:

• Add support for Maildir

This looks pretty good, although it's hard for me to imagine a system
where a sendmail clone doesn't exist to handle local delivery. Can
you add a few words to the commit message motivating this vs. the
existing mail-sending protocols?

If you have good motivation, here are my comments on the patch itself:

I don't see the point of distinguishing between maildir-path and
maildir-mailbox if you're just going to join the paths. Why not have
a pre-joined maildir-mailbox? Is it for easier per-feed overrides?
If so, a note in the commit message would be useful. I'd also prefer
you used get_folder and friends 1 instead of os.path.join(). That's
what they're there for after all. You'll probably also want to handle
the NoSuchMailboxError case with a call to add_folder 2.

[ClearlyClaire]

Well, using sendmail would still imply doing some filtering magic to store the message in the appropriate place. Furthermore, you may want to use completely separate maildirs for some reason (eg: ~/News).

Yes, maildir-path and maildir-mailbox are here to provide easier per-feed overrides.

Good point about get_folder and add_folder, but they don't seem to follow the same conventions offlineimap and mutt use (mailbox.Maildir seems to require folders to start with a “.”)... I'll investigate that...

[emillon]

FYI, I use rss2email to deliver mails to a local Maildir. I use esmtp as my sendmail (it only delivers local mail), and it's a matter of only a few lines:

esmtprc

mda "/usr/bin/procmail -d %T"

procmailrc

:0
* ^User-Agent: rss2email
rss/

That's filtering magic, but a very small one :)

[JNRowe]

I'd also find this useful when I upgrade from 2.71, because I'm using a custom send function to deliver mails to a maildir with 2.71. I don't currently have any tool installed to deliver local mails, as I have no other use for one.

To be fair it wouldn't be all that much effort to write a little script to handle delivery for me if this isn't merged.

[andresmrm]

I would apreciate this merge too. I was almost reimplementing it myself when I saw this issue...

I use msmtp here and, AFAIK, it doesn't deliver local mail.
Esmtp, pointed by Emilion, seems to be no loger maintained:
http://esmtp.sourceforge.net/
I am not using procmail neither...

I will do the changes you suggested to ThibG's commit.

[andresmrm]

I don't know if I did it right, but submited two patches to ThibG... I don't know how to change 2 files in one pull request via Github interface. =P
andresmrm@170ea39
andresmrm@7cd70b2

I thik he need to accept them, and re-pull request to you... Or you may acept his old pull and then copy my changes. Or I can resend the complete changes to you... =P

[Ekleog]

@ThibG This has been merged to https://github.com/rss2email/rss2email, new home of rss2email following maintainer changes ; care to close here? :)