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Re: [bug-mailutils] Skeleton for maildir


From: Alain Magloire
Subject: Re: [bug-mailutils] Skeleton for maildir
Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2002 21:12:12 -0500 (EST)

> 
> > I've just hacked together a maildir skeleton - It doesn't do anything
> > except return -1 alot. *g* I want to make sure that this is the only
> > file I really need to touch when I'm hacking this.
> [...]
> > Ok to commit?
> >
> 
> Sure. I'd only like to notice that the maildir folder structure
> is pretty similar to MH (except some minor details). Existing MH
> support should be able to read and create messages in maildir
> folders, except creating tmp/time.pid.host link. Wouldn't it
> be a good idea to implement maildir on top of it?
> 

Yes, it would.  But the original problem with the framework
it was hard to do a clean inheritance.
But at first glimpse, it should be easier to do maildir 
on top of MH.  They share a lot of functionnalities, instead
of rewritting code from scratch again.





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