Search Term Strategy - ImapMailReceiver 2.2.0.RC2

[Mikael]

Hi everybody!

I'm trying to use the new feature to create my own SearchTermStrategy, because I need to get all the mails which have not set the SEEN flag.

I'm using the inbound-channel-adapter and not the imap-idle-channel-adapter for receiving mails by imap protocol. Somehow the schema validation tells me that it is not valid to use the "search-term-strategy" for an inbound-channel-adapter.

My configuration is mainly the same as in your documentation:
http://static.springsource.org/sprin...l#mail-inbound

Is there any possibility to create my own SearchTermStrategy when not using imap-idle-channel-adapter?

Cheers,
Mikael

[Gary Russell]

The search-term-strategy is currently only supported on the imap-idle adapter.

However, the default strategy already includes the 'Not SEEN' rule (if supported by the server)...

(RECENT and NOT ANSWERED and NOT DELETED and NOT SEEN)

[Mikael]

Thanks for your answer!

My problem is that I would need to get every mail which is set as UNREAD, so that I get the mail again when the user marks it as unread. This does not work with the current SearchTerms, because as I think, the mail is not anymore flagged as RECENT.

Is there any workaround?

Thanks for your help!

[Gary Russell]

You can wire up the adapter using <bean/> definitions instead of using the namespace.

You need a SourcePollingChannelAdapterFactoryBean; this needs properties

source - a MailReceivingMessageSource
outputChannel - ref to a <channel/>
pollerMetadata - ref to a <poller/>


The MailReceivingMessageSource needs a <constructor-arg/> which, in your case, would be an ImapMailReceiver.

When defining your ImapMailReceiver, you can inject your custom SearchTermStrategy into it using the searchTermStrategy propery.


Please go ahead and open a New Feature JIRA ticket; it seems reasonable to me that we should allow this to be configured using the namespace.

https://jira.springsource.org/browse/INT

[Mikael]

Thank you for the description of the workaround, it's almost working

My problem is now, that I can't access anymore the attachment in the mail which was working with version 2.1.4, I compared a bit the source of the ImapMailReceiver and I think it could have something to do that the messages aren't anymore copied before they're passed to the outputChannel. When accessing the attachment later I get a FolderClosedException.

Thanks,
Mikael

[Gary Russell]

I believe you are correct - that looks like a bug in 2.2 to me.

However, you should be able to use the <bean/> technique using 2.1.4.

Is there some other reason you are using the 2.2. RC?

[Mikael]

I'm using 2.2 because I need to define my own search term strategy. Version 2.1.4 does not yet provide this possibility, right?

[Gary Russell]

Duh - of course; sorry.

Let me look into the copy problem; I'll get back to you.

[Gary Russell]

I opened a ticket https://jira.springsource.org/browse/INT-2803

We expect to release RC3 shortly.

[Gary Russell]

Given that we have to fix this problem, I have also scheduled to get INT-2800 into RC3 as well because it really was an omission.