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author | Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net> | 2020-03-10 17:16:10 -0400 |
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committer | Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net> | 2020-03-10 17:16:10 -0400 |
commit | 66a987a52a66aa36b3dfdb4ab8fa6af1c0d5ccf2 (patch) | |
tree | 36fddba71fa390d05a1b8161a8e277c295a55472 /imap-dl | |
parent | f3a9d113fd89db152db9cd2f061fc8f7367f0fc9 (diff) | |
download | mailscripts-66a987a52a66aa36b3dfdb4ab8fa6af1c0d5ccf2.tar.gz |
imap-dl: update documentation to be less explicitly "getmail"y
The fact that imap-dl came out of getmail and borrows a bit of
configuration shouldn't be relevant for new users.
Make the documentation more agnostic about where they're coming from.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'imap-dl')
-rwxr-xr-x | imap-dl | 19 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 15 deletions
@@ -17,22 +17,9 @@ # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License # along with this program. If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. -DESCRIPTION = '''A simple replacement for a minimalist use of getmail. +DESCRIPTION = '''Fetch messages from an IMAP inbox into a maildir -In particular, if you use getmail to reach an IMAP server as though it -were POP (retrieving from the server and optionally deleting), you can -point this script to the getmail config and it should do the same -thing. - -It tries to ensure that the configuration file is of the expected -type, and will terminate raising an exception, and it should not lose -messages. - -If there's any interest in supporting other similarly simple use cases -for getmail, patches are welcome. - -If you've never used getmail, you can make the simplest possible -config file like so: +Example config file: ---------- [retriever] @@ -46,6 +33,8 @@ path = /home/foo/Maildir [options] delete = True ---------- + +Run "man imap-dl" for more details. ''' import re |