Hello, On Thu 23 Jan 2020 at 06:15PM -05, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> I'm also not convinced that the above code enforces tls, checks > certificates, etc. > > Also, have you compared the speed of the above code against the current > python implementation when fetching an off-site mailbox with some > noticeable latency and a decent-sized spool? > > I found that imap-dl is several orders of magnitude faster than getmail, > because it avoids additional roundtrips based on its deliberate use of > the IMAP protocol. I don't know whether that's the case for Mail::Box > (i haven't tested!) but i would be pretty sad to go back to waiting > dozens of seconds to fetch hundreds of messages that could be fetched > instead in a couple seconds. Thank you for the feedback -- just thought I'd share my research. Let's continue to work on your imap-dl. -- Sean Whitton
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