Re: What is the proper way to monitor a folder from an email server?

[Steve Rosen <stevenmichaelrosen gmail com>]

Hi,

I haven't received any replies to this request for information - can
anyone possibly help to answer it?

Thank you,
Steve Rosen

Steve Rosen wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> First, I'd like to thank everyone that has helped me to
> work through some of the issues I had while trying to
> develop a console-based application that uses the Tinymail
> library - I now have everything working relatively well.
>
> However, I've bumped into a few topics that maybe someone
> can offer some advice about.
>
> The first topic has to do with the proper way to monitor
> the folder from an email server - and is related to getting
> re-connected to an email server after getting a disconnect
> notification event from the Tinymail library.  What do I
> need to do? I have a TnyConsoleMsgMonitor object that is
> created with a constructor that takes 3 callback methods
> (one for new headers, one for removed headers, and one
> to receive email message bodies) - do I just destroy this
> object and then create a new one?  Or, is there something
> that this object can do to get itself re-connected to
> the email server, without the higher-level application
> that created the TnyConsoleMsgMonitor object even knowing
> that there was a disconnect, followed by a re-connect?
> Or, do I simply call the "tny_folder_refresh_async" method
> again?
>
> The second topic is actually concerned with that method
> I just referred to - "tny_folder_refresh_async" - should
> that get called periodically?  I seemed to have empirically
> determined that I needed to call it at least twice - once
> to get the initial set of headers in some folder - but then
> I seemed to need to call it one more time (about 10 or 20
> seconds later), to make sure I called back when a folder
> changed on the email server - due to either new message(s)
> that have arrived, or some existing message(s) that were
> removed from the folder being monitored.
>
> Also, related to the my second topic above, it seems that
> imap accounts seem to notify you when a folder has changed,
> but a pop account does not - does this mean I just need to
> call the "tny_folder_refresh_async" method periodically
> (like every 10 or 20 seconds) to get any changes to a pop
> account?
>
> One last topic that I'd like to ask everyone about - and
> this concerns SSL, which you need for connecting to various
> email servers (like Gmail imap accounts, for example) -
> I currently configure the camel-lite library with SSL,
> specifying openssl:
>
>    ./configure --with-ssl=openssl
>
> And, I see the warning message that says openssl is not
> fully tested and supported, and NSS is recommended instead.
> Can you tell me what some of the issues currently might
> be with specifying openssl?  Are the connections unstable?
> Is that part of the issues that I described above in my
> other topics?  Any input and/or advice would be appreciated
> here...
>
> Thank you,
> Steve Rosen