Can a mail-sources :prescript communicate progress back to the user?

[Adam Sjøgren]

Hi,


I am wondering whether there is any functionality for a :prescript in
mail-sources to report progress back to the user - e.g. by messages
being shown in the mini-buffer?

Having IMAP access cut off recently, I now have to use a :prescript
which connects to Microsoft Exchange Web Services and downloads emails.

It takes a while for the script to scan the relevant folders, so it
would be nice with some feedback like "Fetching from INBOX", "Fetching
from tests", etc.


Best regards,

Adam

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Post by Adam Sjøgren
I am wondering whether there is any functionality for a :prescript in
mail-sources to report progress back to the user - e.g. by messages
being shown in the mini-buffer?

Yes... can't you just use a prescript like, er,

:prescript (lambda () (message "Before fetching..."))

or something?

[Adam Sjøgren]

Post by Lars Ingebrigtsen

Post by Adam Sjøgren
I am wondering whether there is any functionality for a :prescript in
mail-sources to report progress back to the user - e.g. by messages
being shown in the mini-buffer?

Yes... can't you just use a prescript like, er,
:prescript (lambda () (message "Before fetching..."))
or something?

Hm, yes, I guess I could made my :prescript a (defun) that calls the
Python script and reads stdout, (message)'ing every line...

Thanks for the pointer!


Best regards,

Adam