gmail importer script

[Rainer M Krug]

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On 08/12/12 14:15, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
>> I actually prefer this approach, but I think it would be more useful to leave the syncing of
>> the emails to a different program, and then just managing the labels / tags with your tool
>> (which is notmuch territory). So the workflow would be: So, implementing the mail sync in
>> this script would, as I see it, kind of reinventing the wheel.
> 
> You're misunderstanding me. Let me make it very clear what the script does. Actually why don't
> you just read the source code? Please? Well,

Because I have never used python, and you know what your script is doing. I prefer to know what
the script is doing, before I try it out and it changes up my local emails and my notmuch
databases in unexpected ways, because I did not understand the source code properly?

> anyway, here:
> 
> - It looks in gmail and asks it which messages gmail has

OK.

> - It downloads those messages

Here is my question - see below.

> - It applies gmail's labels to those messages as tags

Perfect.

Now my final question: after reading your info which is useful, I looked in more detail at the
source code and it made now sense to me. My question is:

If I only want to aply the tags and *not download* emails, can I simply remove the line 88:

  download_new_messages(imap, database, new_messages, destination)

Is this correct? In this case, the script would ony tag y messages which are already downloaded?

If this is the case, I would immediately start using the script.

Rainer

> 
> The end.
> 
> Along the way it has some smart things to reduce redundant downloads.
> 
> For more information, consult the source code.
> 

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