Feature request: to use hasmail with a local maildir?

[doronbehar]

Hello,

I really enjoy using hasmail and it is really stable but I would really like to use it with a synced local maildir. I use mbsync to sync my mail on my machine and I use systemd timers to sync it periodically.

I would like to use hasmail to check for new mail on a local maildir. The idea is to have a single program that syncs the mail and not having a secondary program that performs another IMAP connection to the server.

[jonhoo]

Glad to hear you're enjoying it!

While it should be possible to monitor a local maildir using something like inotify(7) on Linux, it's a fairly different model than what hasmail is currently built to do. I probably won't implement this myself, but would be happy to review a PR. I should also point out that I have switched to using buzz, which is very similar to hasmail, but is written in Rust :)

[doronbehar]

Just out of interest, why did you switch to developing buzz?

[jonhoo]

Because I find Rust a nicer language to work with than Go.

[jonhoo]

If you're curious, I've done some live-coding in Rust too over at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zdudg5TV9i4

[doronbehar]

Cool thanks!