-- -- This file contains examples on how IMAPFilter can be extended using -- the Lua programming language. -- -- IMAPFilter can be detached from the controlling terminal and run in -- the background as a system daemon. -- -- The auxiliary function become_daemon() is supplied for conveniency. -- The following example puts imapfilter in the background and runs -- endlessly, executing the commands in the forever() function and -- sleeping for 600 seconds between intervals: function forever() results = myaccount.mymailbox:is_old() results:move_messages(myaccount.myothermailbox) end become_daemon(600, forever) -- IMAPFilter can take advantage of all those filtering utilities that -- are available and use a wide range of heuristic tests, text analysis, -- internet-based realtime blacklists, advanced learning algorithms, -- etc. to classify mail. IMAPFilter can pipe a message to a program -- and act on the message based on the program's exit status. -- -- The auxiliary function pipe_to() is supplied for conveniency. For -- example if there was a utility named "bayesian-spam-filter", which -- returned 1 when it considered the message "spam" and 0 otherwise: all = myaccount.mymailbox:select_all() results = Set {} for _, mesg in ipairs(all) do mbox, uid = table.unpack(mesg) text = mbox[uid]:fetch_message() if (pipe_to('bayesian-spam-filter', text) == 1) then table.insert(results, mesg) end end results:delete_messages() -- One might want to run the bayesian filter only in those parts (attachments) -- of the message that are of type text/plain and smaller than 1024 bytes. -- This is possible using the fetch_structure() and fetch_part() functions: all = myaccount.mymailbox:select_all() results = Set {} for _, mesg in ipairs(all) do mbox, uid = table.unpack(mesg) structure = mbox[uid]:fetch_structure() for partid, partinf in pairs(structure) do if partinf.type:lower() == 'text/plain' and partinf.size < 1024 then part = mbox[uid]:fetch_part(partid) if (pipe_to('bayesian-spam-filter', part) == 1) then table.insert(results, mesg) break end end end end results:delete_messages() -- Messages can be appended to a mailbox. One can fetch a message from a -- mailbox, optionally process it, and then upload it to the same or different -- mailbox, at the same or different mail servers. In the following example a -- header field is added to all messages, and the processed messages are then -- appended to a different mailbox. all = myaccount.mymailbox:select_all() for _, mesg in ipairs(all) do mbox, uid = table.unpack(mesg) header = mbox[uid]:fetch_header() body = mbox[uid]:fetch_body() message = header:gsub('[\r\n]+$', '\r\n') .. 'My-Header: My-Content\r\n' .. '\r\n' .. body myaccount.myothermaibox:append_message(message) end -- Passwords could be extracted during execution time from an encrypted -- file. -- -- The file is encrypted using the openssl(1) command line tool. For -- example the "passwords.txt" file: -- -- secret1 -- secret2 -- -- ... is encrypted and saved to a file named "passwords.enc" with the -- command: -- -- $ openssl bf -in passwords.txt -out passwords.enc -- -- The auxiliary function pipe_from() is supplied for conveniency. The -- user is prompted to enter the decryption password, the file is -- decrypted and the account passwords are set accordingly: status, output = pipe_from('openssl bf -d -in ~/passwords.enc') _, _, password1, password2 = string.find(output, '([%w%p]+)\n([%w%p]+)') account1 = IMAP { server = 'imap1.mail.server', username = 'user1', password = password1 } account2 = IMAP { server = 'imap2.mail.server', username = 'user2', password = password2 }