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From: owner-mail-ng(_at_)mail(_dot_)imc(_dot_)org
[mailto:owner-mail-ng(_at_)mail(_dot_)imc(_dot_)org] On Behalf Of Brett Watson
Sent: Friday, February 27, 2004 3:31 AM
To: mail-ng mailinglist
Subject: Re: mailbox format(s)
Users want...
* to be able to switch MUAs without losing their mail data,
addressbook data, or other account settings. (This covers the
case where the user has more than one MUA installed on a
given machine at a given time.) On the other hand, they may
want to have distinct accounts on distinct MUAs, so this does
not imply that all MUAs must have the same settings. Tricky.
This calls for a unified format of settings files, with the possibility
for MUAs to reference / include them without breaking. This way, server
addresses, port numbers and login names would typically be in a shared
repository (file/DB), while highly application-specific settings
(generally a Bad Thing, but to avoid it implies having a huge set of
standardized settings) would be stored separately.
I.e.:
* Users want to be able to share settings between MUAs.
* Users want to be able to override and add settings to the general ones
for specific MUAs.
Yours sincerely,
--
Victor Engmark
Quid quid latine dictum sit, altum viditar - What is said in latin,
sounds profound