Ashton Trey Belew <trey(_at_)veggie(_dot_)wesleyan(_dot_)edu>:
How difficult would it be to tell fetchmail to get a glob. As
an example, I would like to write the following in my .fetchmailrc
poll myothermachine with proto IMAP auth ssh
plugin 'ssh myothermachine /usr/sbin/imapd'
user 'trey' there with password 'trey' is 'trey' here
folder /trey/mail/*
And have it iterate over every file in /trey/mail/
The reason for this seemingly irrational desire is fairly simple. I
am subscribed to a few lists and have procmail rules to
handle them all. When I travel I like to just ssh to my other machine
in order to read that through mutt and have all the mail in its nice
compartmentalized places. But when I am home, I want everything to be
basically the exact same. Unfortunately that requires me having a
chintsy script to grab a directory listing of my mailing lists and
append that to my .fetchmailrc so that it looks like this:
poll myothermachine with proto IMAP auth ssh
plugin 'ssh myothermachine /usr/sbin/imapd'
user 'trey' there with password 'trey' is 'trey' here
folder
/trey/mail/lists/this,/trey/mail/lists/that,/trey/mail/lists/theother ...
If you want to implement this, I'll consider a patch.
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"Since there is no such entity as 'the public,' since the public is merely a
number of individuals, the idea that 'the public interest' supersedes private
interests and rights can have but one meaning: that the interests and rights of
some individuals take precedence over the interests and rights of others."
-- Ayn Rand
Don't think of it as `gun control', think of it as `victim
disarmament'. If we make enough laws, we can all be criminals.