Earl Hood wrote:
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Just to throw out an alternative to the idea (and a dicussion
that probably goes way out there):
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I guess something like this would not possible happen until nmh 5.0 :-)
This is a good point. I wonder if Tobias' feature belongs in a future
release of nmh, where we'd have time to discuss things like the
fascinating question Earl brought up: what about IMAP? I had a few
major questions and concerns in my own long reply. There's a lot that
nmh needs to do to catch up with changes in the email world since MH was
created in the mid-20th century.
It would be a *real* shame to break nmh's programmability, or some
feature that's useful but obscure, by not discussing and testing it
thoroughly. Once people start to use a new feature, there'll be
resistance to backing out a poor implementation and (re-)doing it right.
I'm not saying that Tobias would implement something poorly, just that
it's hard to get very new and fundamental changes right without lots of
thought and testing...
Ken, is it too soon to start a development branch for nmh-2.0 (or 5.0 :)?
Jerry