CASUAL-UPDATE(7)       Miscellaneous Information Manual       CASUAL-UPDATE(7)

NAME
     casual update – software developments

DESCRIPTION
     I've been figuring out more of IMAP and Internet Messages in general
     while working on a new project so I've revisited some older ones.  I've
     copied my somewhat more proper IMAP parsing code into them, so they
     should be more robust.

     imbox(1) is my tool to export messages in mboxrd format directly from
     IMAP.  It's mostly for applying patches sent by email without having any
     kind of local mail setup.  For that, it includes the git-fetch-email(1)
     wrapper which works very similarly to git-send-email(1).  I learned by
     reading the source of git-subtree(1) that git-rev-parse(1) can be used by
     shell scripts to parse long options, so I added those.  I also added the
     --apply flag to automatically pipe to git-am(1) with the right flags for
     mboxrd.

     notemap(1) is a tool for mirroring text files to an IMAP Notes mailbox,
     which is used by FastMail's web UI and the macOS/iOS Notes app.  Its
     original parsing code was particularly ad-hoc.  Since I've now learned
     how UTF-8 headers are encoded, I updated it to properly encode the file
     name in the Subject line.

     I also got distracted by a conversation about UNIX-domain sockets where I
     was comparing the macOS and FreeBSD unix(4) pages and the Linux unix(7)
     page.  This lead me to make exman(1), a tool to locally install and read
     manual pages for Linux, POSIX, FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD.  I've already
     gotten quite a bit of use out of it.

     In yet another IRC distraction, I was talking about some further plans
     for my IRC software, and realized it might be time to write my future
     projects list down.  I opened a .plan file, immediately wondered how
     anyone can write plain text, then switched to a plan.7 file.  There's
     nothing I won't use mdoc(7) for.  After a little setup, I can now be
     fingered, and make jokes about this silly little protocol from the days
     of old.  finger(1)'s default output fills me with joy:

           No Mail.
           No Plan.

     And speaking of IRC and plans, I've been meaning to tag catgirl(1)
     version 1.0 for a while now.  I've been using it as my main client and my
     commits to it have really slowed down.  When I do tag it, I'm planning on
     writing another post about my whole “suite” of IRC software and how the
     parts work together.  Watch this space.

SEE ALSO
     imbox: https://git.causal.agency/imbox
     notemap: https://git.causal.agency/notemap
     exman: https://git.causal.agency/exman
     catgirl: https://git.causal.agency/catgirl

AUTHORS
     June Bug <june@causal.agency>

Causal Agency                     May 6, 2020                    Causal Agency