On Feb 19, 2014, at 5:59 PM, Ken Hornstein <kenh(_at_)pobox(_dot_)com> wrote:
Define a syntax where folder_read() (or a replacement) takes something that refers to an IMAP mailbox, and you're most of the way there.
Try it on for size before making pronouncements :-P The hair on the werewolf grows faster than you can possibly imagine. I did an experimental IMAP back end circa 2002. I saw enough to convince me to run away. The native store, while not particularly sexy, is a mandatory component to allow the rest of the system to work. If you pervert that, you destroy everything. As for IMAP on the back end, forget it. MH cannot deal with immutable message files. It just won't fly. I looked at using the various IMAP annotate extensions, but the bottom line is the code would have to work with a plain old 3501-compliant IMAP server. It can't. And even with IMAP annotation support on the server, the n! conglomeration of IMAP extensions your have to deal with these days leads to an n! explosion in the complexity of the MH library. That way lies madness. Keep MH simple. If you want IMAP, you know where to find it. And if you know both IMAP and MH, you know when and where to apply each of them. --lyndon
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