After Action Hooks

[James A. Pattie]

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Drew Morris wrote:
| Hello all,
|
| I was wondering if it would be possible to add after action hooks into
| Cyrus-IMAP/POP so that upon any change to a mailbox (folder move,
| folder rename, folder deletion, message addition, message deletion,
| message move, etc.) I would be able to fire an action like a perl
| script or some other program. The script would need to know which user
| this was performed on, the command, the element type (folder or
| message), and the unique ID of the element. This feature would be
| extremely useful for mail automation.
|
| In my case, I want to mainain a cache of message metadata that is kept
| in synch with the Cyrus message store pro-actively without having to
| keep calling synch functions on each mailbox. The idea would be for
| these "after action hooks" to fire off an asynchronous process that
| would be able to update the cache so that if a user looked at the
| cache they would see an up-to-date version of their data.
|
| Thanks in advance for your thoughts.

You could also use MailScanner and have it archive the e-mails using the
MailWatch program (writes the headers to a mysql database).

http://www.mailscanner.info/
http://mailwatch.sf.net/

Or if MailWatch is doing too much or not enough for you, just use it as
a template for a Custom Function to plug into MailScanner to do the
archiving you are looking to do.

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