[gentoo-soc] Introduction-GSOC-IMAP-Sync and Scheduled Notifier

[nishant shreshth]

Hello Gentoo Community,

I am Nishant Shreshth , third year under graduate student accomplishing
B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering at National Institute Of
Technology, Bhopal.
I love coding and solving real world problems and automating things and
have wrote few scripts for solving and automating my daily tasks. I am a
great open source lover and Linux enthusiast and have worked on different
linux distros and have a good hold on version control system, Git . I have
been introduced to open source around 2011 and since then I am working on
open source software and products.I am a great python lover and is always
ready to discuss about the libraries and performance up gradation in python.

I have applied for OfflineIMAP/IMAPfw project under the Gentoo Linux
organisation.

I would like to implement a better and efficient sync mechanism (two way
merge) for  the mails/messages and accounts between user's maildir and IMAP
server and saving mails to maildir sub folders. A user will be able to
initiate the sync by using CLI or it will be automatically synced after a
scheduled period that will be 24 hrs.

Secondly, I would like to work on scheduled Notifier.Many a times we think
that it is not the right time to mail and we think we will mail it later
but most of the times we forget to mail later and miss important stuff. We
can implement a scheduled Notifier (and even scheduled mailing later ) that
will enable a user to  schedule an email and the user will be notified at
the scheduled time to send the mail. We will keep this scheduled time info
in the meta of each draft. Later on we can extend it to scheduled sending
of the email by integrating SMTP with IMAPfw.

Link To My Proposal:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2jGYG1wE6KZUmVEVnJpX3VzYkk/view?usp=sharing

Regrads,

*Nishant Shreshth*
*B.Tech Computer Science & Engineering ( IIIrd Year)*
*MANIT, Bhopal*