Re: [Nmh-workers] Maybe time for a new release?

[Paul Vixie]

where did we end on reformatting the mhdir to accommodate MIME?

in the past, a simple line oriented UNIX utility such as "grep -r" could 
be used on the mhdir, with good results. with MIME that's no longer 
true, either because of quoted-printable, base64, or nested objects.

one solution proposed for this was to add some new helper tools similar 
to find(1) and/or xargs(1) which could execute line-oriented tools 
within the context of defanged and decoded content.

another solution proposed would write defanged/decoded content into 
files that are stored alongside the original (as received in SMTP) 
content. some new option to "folder" or "sortm" could generate these for 
older mhdirs, whereas inc and rcvstore would just write both forms.

i think i favoured both approaches :-). was there an end to the argument?

vixie