Re: [Nmh-workers] Future directions for nmh

[Paul Vixie]

Jon Steinhart wrote:
> ...
> I think that we should keep the mail store as is.  I agree that the MIME
> and character set stuff has made it less grep-able than it used to be,
> but it's still useful.

useful for what? i have no remaining use cases of my own.

> I am emboldened by David's posting regarding add-hook, etc.  Didn't know
> that anybody actually used that stuff other than me.  The hook stuff was
> an expedient hack on my part, and it's not really as robust as it could
> be.  I would like to see it made more of an integral part of nmh as
> opposed to the add-on hack that I did.

i love your hooks. used them in mhdb:

http://family.redbarn.org/~vixie/mhdb.shar

> The reason that having a solid hooks implementation is important is that
> it allows users to have whatever alternate mail stores suit them without
> having to make them part of nmh.

my situation is the opposite. i'd like multiple mail store types inside 
NMH, or a pluggable hooks-style interface allowing the creation of same, 
so that i can use NMH command line tools to attack my Maildir store as 
created for me by Dovecot.

a mail store that i can only reach by the command line isn't maximally 
useful.

a mail store that i can't reach by the command line isn't maximally 
useful, either.

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P Vixie