On Mon, 09 Jan 2006 20:13:56 +0700, Robert Elz said:
The suggestion to make an IMAP filesystem (as linux centric as the original suggestion was) is clearly the direction that would allow MH and IMAP to work together properly. Embedding IMAP knowledge into show, next, scan, pick, refile, ... just fails to meet almost any useful objective.
The Obviously Correct Way to approach this would be (on a Linux system anyhow) a back-end for a FUSE filesystem. http://fuse.sourceforge.net/ Doing this would be a *lot* more sensible than trying to hack IMAP function into the nmh source tree. The basic idea is that you'd do something like: fusermount imapserver:userid ~/Mail/imap_dir and then if you did 'scan +imap_dir/folder3 last', the FUSE code would see all the references to ~/Mail/imap_dir/folder3/* and issue the correct IMAP calls behind the scenes... And of course, 'grep -i foo23 ~/Mail/imap_dir/folder3/*' will behave as expected as wel.....
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