Hawk Wings » perl http://www.hawkwings.net Tips and add-ons to make Apple Mail / Mail.app even better Tue, 26 Jul 2011 07:44:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Four ways for Mail users to beat Exchange’s public folders http://www.hawkwings.net/2007/01/25/four-ways-for-mail-users-to-beat-exchanges-public-folders/ http://www.hawkwings.net/2007/01/25/four-ways-for-mail-users-to-beat-exchanges-public-folders/#comments Thu, 25 Jan 2007 11:44:08 +0000 Tim Gaden http://www.hawkwings.net/2007/01/25/four-ways-for-mail-users-to-beat-exchanges-public-folders/ ExchangeserverFlorian Beer has posted two tips which stop Mail.app syncing Exchange’s public folders.

One of them has been covered on Hawk Wings before, but the other one brings the list of possible work-arounds to four:

  1. Reorganise your Exchange folder tree. Create a new top-level subfolder and set an IMAP path to match.
  2. Tweak the settings in Windows Active Directory . If you have administrator rights, you can switch the syncing off at Exchange’s end.
  3. Perl it out of your life . Lars Eggert has written a Perl script which allows some control over which folders (if any) are synced.
  4. Lock the local cache. Florian’s second tip explains how to lock your local cache folders so that Exchange can’t sync with them.

Caveat Lector — I have absolutely no experience with Microsoft Exchange Server and no interest in acquiring some. mail.app, apple mail, microsoft, exchange server, imap, public folders, perl, local cache, emailSimilar Posts:

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Now, it seems that you can, if you know a bit of Perl and are not in a hurry.

Julio Vidal has discovered a Perl module which does exactly that.

He got it working with Mail although it was slow.

I won’t pretend to understand a fifth of what he writes, but it sounds promising:

For your pleasure, it is now in pkgsrc as mail/p5-GMail-IMAPD alongside a patch to accommodate a change in GMail’s login protocol. There is also the programmatic interface to the web service used by the former in mail/p5-Mail-Webmail-Gmail , but be aware that the former includes a somewhat obsolete copy of the latter due to non-official modifications.

If some red-hot Perl coder passes by, takes an interest in this and is able to package it up in a way that normal people like me can understand and use, I’d love to hear about it.gmail, apple mail, mail.app, imap, perl, gateway, emailSimilar Posts:

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