Atmospherian's Dev Blog

So i’ve beena bit quiet about InterIMAP lately, but that doesn’t mean i haven’t been working on it. Today i will be checking in the latest update of the code which includes some really cool functionality, as well as a new IMAPShell project.

Code Updates

• Added support for retrieving and parsing message structure and content
• Fix some locking issues in the DataManager to make multi-threading work better
• Added support for retrieving and updating message flags
• Added a Log Aggregator that collects the logging information from all worker threads
• Improved the parsing of email addresses
• Added support for decoding message content in the correct format
• Added support to all requests to monitor the amount of data received to facilitate progress indicators
• Added the FullMessageRequest which will asynchronously retrieve the header, structure and all parts of a message while providing progress indication.
• Added lots of functionality to the GUITest app including a message viewer to test how a message will appear.

IMAPShell Project

There is a new project in the solution called IMAPShell, and as the name implies, it is a console command shell that allows CLI style interaction with the IMAP library. The goal of the project is to provide a quick and easy way to access message information without having to configure an email client.

It is in its early stages but you can already connect to a server, navigate the directory structure of a mailbox using dir/cd commands and list the messages in a folder using the list command. Command help is fully integrated.

What’s Next

Here is a list of what i will be working on for the next update:

• Support for creating/deleting folders
• Support for copying/moving messages
• Support for saving/loading messages and attachments to a local file
• Support for easily detecting new messages in any folder