{"id":488,"date":"2016-09-18T13:49:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-18T11:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kassebaum.eu\/?p=488"},"modified":"2016-09-18T13:49:00","modified_gmt":"2016-09-18T11:49:00","slug":"imapsize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kassebaum.eu\/blog\/2016\/09\/18\/imapsize\/","title":{"rendered":"IMAPSize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From time to time I&#8217;m making backups from my IMAP account. Therefore I&#8217;m using a small tool called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.broobles.com\/imapsize\/\" target=\"_blank\">IMAPSize<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>IMAPSize is written in Delphi 5 and the code is hosted under <a href=\"https:\/\/sourceforge.net\/projects\/imapsize\/\" target=\"_blank\">sourceforge<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Last week it has been impossible to connect to my IMAP account with IMAPSize that&#8217;s why I wanted to debug it.<\/p>\n<p>Since I didn&#8217;t want to reinstall Delphi 5 I converted the code to Delphi Berlin and published it under <a href=\"https:\/\/bitbucket.org\/imapsize\/imapsize\" target=\"_blank\">bitbucket<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I had to get rid of some very old Third Party VCL components and replaced them with the VCL standard controls so that the Delphi Berlin version currently isn&#8217;t as smooth as the original one. But with some additional hours of time things could be fixed.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I could debug the tool and found out what the problem was: IMAPSize uses the Synapse components to connect to an IMAP server which themselves use <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/OpenSSL\" target=\"_blank\">OpenSSL<\/a>. Therefore IMAPSize ships two dlls which were simply outdated.<\/p>\n<p>Now I&#8217;m considering to move IMAPSize to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/FireMonkey\" target=\"_blank\">FireMonkey<\/a> and additionally to a console application. With these changes IMAPSize would run on the Mac and maybe in the future on Linux but I therefore I would need some sponsors. So any help or thoughts are appreciated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From time to time I&#8217;m making backups from my IMAP account. Therefore I&#8217;m using a small tool called IMAPSize. IMAPSize is written in Delphi 5 and the code is hosted under sourceforge. Last week it has been impossible to connect &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kassebaum.eu\/blog\/2016\/09\/18\/imapsize\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,34,18,4,3,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-delphi","category-rad-studio-10-1-berlin","category-sourceforge","category-thirdpartycomponents","category-tipsandtricks","category-turbopack"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kassebaum.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kassebaum.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kassebaum.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kassebaum.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kassebaum.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=488"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.kassebaum.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":492,"href":"https:\/\/www.kassebaum.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488\/revisions\/492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kassebaum.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kassebaum.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kassebaum.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}