On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 12:31:58PM +0100, Jochem Meyers wrote: > Hi all, > > Currently, I'm trying to build an application involving synchronizing some > data stored in a cyrus imap store (as messages with attachments) to an sql > database. To accomplish this, I would like to have cyrus run a shell script > when a item in it's store is updated or created. The items don't arrive > through the MTA, but rather through a direct connection with the IMAP > server, so using something like procmail is out of the question. Updates > also need to be caught and processed. > > If this isn't a possibility, I'll have to write an application that checks > the mailbox status periodically and synchronizes if it finds updates, but > for an improved user experience, I'd rather use the above method. > > Thanks in advance for any advice, If you wanted to be cheeky about it you could enable replication and then just not run a copy of sync_client. You would then need a separate process to tail the $confdir/sync/log file and parse out mailbox names to call the shell script for. Not that I would endorse such a trick of course - oh the hackery. Bron. ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
