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Originally Posted by JimmXinu
Something I have been experimenting with is using IMAP to get URLs for updates from the site update notice emails. FFDL on command looks for unread emails in a specified folder/label that contain story URLs and then marks them read before popping up the regular download-from-urls dialog prefilled with the story URLs.
It works with my GMail account, but it requires giving your email address and password to FFDL/calibre. And you have to have IMAP available/turned on.
Are people willing to give FFDL/calibre their address and password?
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I'd be very happy to do that. I still think it's the most efficient way, compared to RSS feeds.
Although instead of read/unread, I'd rather go with flag/unflag, which would reduce the "risk" of a user reading notices and forgetting to put the Unread flag back for FFDL.
Another point: What about taking advantage (again) of Reading List? Say that FFDL can ask for a "Stories to update" list, which will be populated by the user and/or by FFDL's mail parser. FFDL would maybe have a new menu item "Update stories from waiting list" (alongside "Update existing"), update the books in the usual way from that list, then flush the list of books with a success return code. That would have the added advantage of allowing the user to easily cherry-pick the stories to update before running the job.
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