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'Subscribe' to IMAP folders in Mail.app with a proxy
Authored by: slchang on Jun 07, '05 07:50:57PM

There is an updated version of this script available at the author's website: http://larseggert.de/software.html

I've read over the script, both the old and the new, and believe it's perfectly non-malicious. The new version (on the author's site) is based on which folders you wish to exclude, rather than which ones you wish to subscribe to, which is helpful. I suggest that you use the new version of the script rather than the one linked here (the new one is easier to read and configure, and for whatever reason, the version linked here has some regex escaping problems). I've been running it for a few days on Tiger (10.4.1) and it works great. There's nothing fancy going on; I believe it would actually work fine on any version of OS X with the right perl modules.

You do need to tweak the script itself, with the regexes that specify the folders to exclude, as well as the hostname/port of your IMAP server.

If you need an SSL connection to your IMAP server, you will need to install the IO::Socket::SSL perl module, which in turn will require the Net::SSLeay module. You will probably need the Tiger dev tools (which come on the Tiger DVD) to build these.

If you aren't comfortable making simple tweaks to a perl script, or installing perl modules from the command line, this fix is probably not for you, though I can vouch that it works quite well.



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'Subscribe' to IMAP folders in Mail.app with a proxy
Authored by: larse on Sep 01, '05 04:44:45PM
I've put version 1.16 online at http://www.larseggert.de/software.html that fixes a bug with non-SSL connections to IMAP servers.

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'Subscribe' to IMAP folders in Mail.app with a proxy
Authored by: vogunaescht on Sep 24, '06 01:48:58AM

Hello Lars,
The version of imapfilter.pl available on your website identifies itself as 1.12, not 1.16.



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