Gentoo Archives: gentoo-soc

From: Ishan Khare <ishankhare07@×××××.com>
To: Benda Xu <heroxbd@×××××.com>
Cc: gentoo-soc@l.g.o, nicolas.s-dev@×××××××.net, abdo.roig@×××××.com
Subject: Re: [gentoo-soc] Introduction
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2016 08:30:49
Message-Id: CAJDNio_ZC0NKF3wycDCFodxr8R3xQ3Y97cAvL6x0AwQu00n7Fw@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-soc] Introduction by Benda Xu
1 Hi Benda,
2
3 Initial searches show me that offlineimap exists in official package
4 repositories. So I'm not sure whether it's installed along with 'minimal
5 installation disk' but it sure does come installed with the live cd.
6
7 I'll be trying the minimal cd installation very soon. Will share more
8 details.
9
10 Regards,
11 Ishan
12
13 On Tue, Mar 29, 2016, 7:06 AM Benda Xu <heroxbd@×××××.com> wrote:
14
15 > Hi Ishan,
16 > Cc Nicolas, Abdó,
17 >
18 > Ishan Khare <ishankhare07@×××××.com> writes:
19 >
20 > > I'm Ishan Khare, a student of Computer Science in Lakshmi Narain
21 > > College of Technology, Bhopal, India; Currently in my 4th and final
22 > > year.
23 >
24 > Welcome!
25 >
26 > > I have applied to the project `Synchronization of mails` under the
27 > > OfflineIMAP/IMAPfw project under the gentoo foundation. This is to
28 > > enable syncing of emails between an `IMAP server` and a local `Maildir
29 > > ` repository, between Maildir and Maildir repositories etc. Currently
30 > > the `OfflineIMAP` project possesses this capability and the `imapfw`
31 > > is designed to succeed the former as a `framework`. By the end of
32 > > GSOC, following points are to be achieved:
33 > >
34 > > 1 High-level IMAP layer using the `imaplib3` library.
35 > >
36 > > 2 A new backend cache (state).
37 > >
38 > > 3 A low-level driver for Maildir.
39 > >
40 > > 4 A 3-way / 2-way merge engine.
41 >
42 > Though I find the summer of code ideas at
43 >
44 >
45 > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/2016/Ideas#imapfw.2C_the_next_mail_framework
46 >
47 > Does imapfw have anything related to Gentoo?
48 >
49 > Benda
50 >