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Why does it use SMTP to resend the email to yourself instead of just using IMAP to replace the email?

Because I haven't yet messed around with parsing just the message body out for encryption to then do an imaplib append with it.

That said, I think this is worth doing, so it's currently in progress. I just don't have a ton of time at the moment, pull requests eagerly accepted though. :)

What about just modifying GMVault to do this?

I had a brief look at the GMVault source to see if there were any obvious msg constructing bits, but nothing is jumping out at me, do you happen to know where the message construction is done here?

No, I don't know the code, sorry, it just seemed like a good place to start for the IMAP bit.

Thanks to Mannkind, I figured it out and it's in now in case you were specifically after this.

This. I gave up on Rss2Email and rolled my own version using IMAP instead of SMTP. Deliverability from iffy to 100%. Furthermore, you can pre-select the folder (label).

If you wouldn't mind sharing I'd be interested in seeing/using this. Currently I have a filter in gmail that matches emails that are from myself and have "rss" in them, which paired with a dedicated sendmail listening on my computer (opensmtpd, I'd highly recommend checking it out) has lead to me getting 100%. Your method sounds interesting though!

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