Adding an imap account to sync

[eamonnfaherty]

I have successfully added a gmail account (using the command line) to sync and it works wonderfully.

I cannot see how to add an imap account. Ideally, I would like to add it via the api and also know how to add a gmail account via the api but I cannot see anything in the docs for this. I have looked through the code also but cannot see anything. It looks like it can sync but I cannot see a resource I can use to add.

[charlesg3]

Hi Eamonn,

Thanks for your interest. By "imap account" do you mean simply a generic
imap account where the user may provide e.g. the server / port?

--charles

On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 9:05 AM, Eamonn Faherty notifications@github.com
wrote:

I have successfully added a gmail account (using the command line) to sync
and it works wonderfully.

I cannot see how to add an imap account. Ideally, I would like to add it
via the api and also know how to add a gmail account via the api but I
cannot see anything in the docs for this. I have looked through the code
also but cannot see anything. It looks like it can sync but I cannot see a
resource I can use to add.

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[eamonnfaherty]

Thanks for the response!

Yes, for those users who are not using gmail or yahoo we would like to be able to add imap server, username and password so that their accounts can be sync'd

[charlesg3]

Hi Eamonn,

We are currently working on broadening the number of providers that we
support. In the future we would like to add the ability to support generic
IMAP providers so stay tuned. If there is a specific provider that you're
looking for us to add support for, please let me know and we can try to
incorporate it into the current push.

Cheers!

--charles

On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 2:27 AM, Eamonn Faherty notifications@github.com
wrote:

Thanks for the response!

Yes, for those users who are not using gmail or yahoo we would like to be
able to add imap server, username and password so that their accounts can
be sync'd

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[derhuerst]

+1 for generic IMAP!

[eamonnfaherty]

For us the generic imap route is quite significant. Other than that outlook.com would be great too. We could probably develop the outlook.com solution ourselves in house modelling off of yahoo and gmail providers. If we did would you guys accept a pull request? Also there is probably not much point us building the same bits.

[charlesg3]

outlook support is currently added and will be pushed on our next merge
from dev -> master.

On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 9:29 AM, Eamonn Faherty notifications@github.com
wrote:

For us the generic imap route is quite significant. Other than that
outlook.com would be great too. We could probably develop the outlook.com
solution ourselves in house modelling off of yahoo and gmail providers. If
we did would you guys accept a pull request? Also there is probably not
much point us building the same bits.

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[eamonnfaherty]

great to hear. this project is awesome!

do you have any idea when that push will happen?

is there any timelines on IMAP support?

[spang]

We'll likely merge dev on Monday. My best guess for generic IMAP support landing is on the order of a month.

[eamonnfaherty]

has development started? is there anything we can do to help speed it up?
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We'll likely merge dev on Monday. My best guess for generic IMAP support
landing is on the order of a month.

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[grinich]

What server+version do you have? (Dovecot, Cyrus, Zimbra, etc.)

[eamonnfaherty]

We do not offer an email service. we are building a 'sort of' email client
which is why we were hoping for a generic IMAP solution.
On 31 Jul 2014 00:05, "Michael Grinich" notifications@github.com wrote:

What server+version do you have? (Dovecot, Cyrus, Zimbra, etc.)

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[grinich]

Got it.

We're actively working on it. Timeline is on the order of weeks, but it's tricky to build+test all providers.

[eamonnfaherty]

Are you working on it within the github repos? I cannot find it.

[khamidou]

Yeah, it's in the dev branch.

[charlesg3]

Hey eamonnfaherty,

We recently released v0.2.0 which includes convenient support for generic IMAP providers (see inbox/providers.py). If you have any additional providers that you add to this list submit a pull request and we can integrate them into mainline.