Re: [Nmh-workers] exciting new stuff for 2.0 (IMAP proposal)

[Joel Reicher]

> I didn't know about .netrc, will check it out.
> 
> I can see a whole bunch of empty directories being a waste, but 
> .mh_sequences does need to be stored somewhere.  Perhaps there should 
> just be a $HOME/[Mail/].imap-mh_sequences that has all of them?

Sequences are a different problem. Since MH has both public and private
sequences, I would argue that the only truly "public" sequence for an
IMAP folder is one that is stored on the IMAP server. This could be
done with a file on the server, since IMAP allows fairly free form
file retrieval, or it could be done with flags where the server permits
the definition of new flags. I don't think there would be performance
issues with either option, but using flags is definitely better for
data integrity where the mail might be accessed by different clients.

Cheers,

        - Joel