Re: [Nmh-workers] Future directions for nmh

[Paul Vixie]

Lyndon Nerenberg wrote:
> > On Mar 16, 2016, at 6:04 PM, Paul Vixie<address@hidden>  wrote:
> >
> > prayer is the simplest and faster webmail system i ever found for my family's 
> > use while traveling.
>
> But. How. Does webmail have anything to do with this?

webmail and mh both have a fork+exec before every operation, thus the 
need to keep an IMAP session open persistenly across many fork+exec's.

if MH could proxy its IMAP operations through a daemon running on a unix 
domain socket or the loopback interface, then we could idealize the RPC 
API between MH and that daemon. one thought is restful json.

i mentioned prayer webmail because it's an extremely high quality C 
implementation of this idea, and has an MH-compatible license.

i bring up this proxying idea because i'd be the first to write a proxy 
that spoke Maildir instead of IMAP, and ken would be the first to write 
a proxy that spoke MH-Dir, at which point the whole existing MH code 
base would be simpler and more modular than it is now.

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P Vixie