Re: [Nmh-workers] IMAP/nmh, again

[Bakul Shah]

On Thu, 26 Oct 2017 20:32:44 -0400 Ken Hornstein <address@hidden> wrote:
Ken Hornstein writes:
> Since you say that it "often"
> takes much less than a second, I am wondering if maybe that only happens
> when new mail arrives and Dovecot needs to rescan the directory.

I have no idea. I need to look into it. Right now when I
tried, it took 3ms.

> >The trickier aspect, and the real issue for me, is proper
> >synchronization when email is accessed from multiple machines, and which
> >may not be connected all the time. On reconnection a client has to
> >upload its changes and resync its local cache with the imap server so
> >that changes made elsewhere are properly reflected.
> 
> Well, that's why I was advocating a solution, which I guess I would
> call "almost no caching".

As I want to be able to use unix + mh commands I am interested
in full caching. Without it I may as well stick to visual
MUAs.

> >So my current strategy is to wrap unchanged MH commands or rewrite the
> >simpler ones which are more the "plumbing" kind, for example, mhpath and
> >mhparam.
> 
> Well, I do look forward to seeing what you implement!  Please keep us
> in the loop.

Plan to.