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Re: [Nmh-workers] What is MH ? (was: exciting new stuff for 2.0 (IMAP pr


From: Joel Reicher
Subject: Re: [Nmh-workers] What is MH ? (was: exciting new stuff for 2.0 (IMAP proposal))
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 17:58:11 +1100

> Using your argument, shouldn't the initial developers of mh just have used
> the commonly available mbox format then?  There are certain things gained
> from the mh folder format, the people who cooked it up knew what they
> wanted.

That's an interesting idea, and it'd be nice to hear more. Feel free to
reply just to me if you think it'd just be noise on the list.

> I fail to understand what this discussion is all about.  I agree that it
> would be nice if inc could suck mail from imap, but how is having the
> command line tools understand imap not outside of the scope of mh?  This
> sounds like it could make a fine fork from the mh code, but I fail to see
> how such an addition can be classified as a part of mh.  What is gained?
> Does this even solve a problem?

Surely all the arguments that apply to using IMAP in the first place
for any email at all also apply to MH+IMAP. I can use MH from a number
of different machines because my home directory is NFS mounted within
a small network, but NFS is not appropriate for all situations.

> Making this happen is going to require a lot of work.  Making it work in a
> way that isn't just bolting a bag a manure onto the side of the current
> code will be a miracle.

I'll admit I haven't looked thoroughly at the IMAP spec, but from what I've
seen so far the mapping from MH commands to IMAP requests looks pretty good.

> I don't see nmh living for much longer unless things change.  Most projects
> would be considered dead at this point, but somehow nmh is hanging on.

It's hanging on because there are still command-line users out there.
MH is the only command-line and shell oriented MUA that I know of.

Cheers,

        - Joel




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