Thus said Ken Hornstein on Wed, 09 Mar 2016 10:18:04 -0500:
1) I do not think converting and storing incoming messages as UTF-8 is
wise. In terms of just simplicity alone I think messages should be
stored (somewhere) in their on-the-wire format;
I too agree with this position. The email that nmh writes into my Mail
folder should not differ from the message that my MTA queued on disk.
4) In terms of alternate mail stores, be they Maildir or IMAP (I think
those are the two major candidates now, right?), I think those
ideas are interesting. The #1 problem with those ideas is how to
map MH message numbers (which can range 1-MAXINT, with holes) to
the internal key used by those mail stores; everything else is
relatively easy to deal with.
What's wrong with the way nmh does it today? Maildir is certainly
superior for some of the reasons detailed below, but nmh's Mail store
isn't very far off:
http://cr.yp.to/proto/maildir.html
Also, I'm confused why Maildir and IMAP are both alternate mail stores.
Email is stored on server in a Maildir and accessed via IMAP. I don't
see them as mutually exclusive.
Thanks,
Andy
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