The context issue (and a related client issue) is actually why I stopped using
mh a while back. I switched professions and needed the email client on my phone
to interact reasonably with the client on my laptop (or server typically
accessed via laptop). For a while, I ssh’d into a server and ran nmh commands
from my phone, but that proved to be reasonably painful and didn’t look like it
was going to improve anytime soon (frequent if simple MIME content didn’t help).
I looked at a couple webmail systems (Squirrel is the name I recall, but there
were a couple, including at least one home-brew), but the overhead of syncing
status between the systems proved to be irritating enough that I just gave in
to imap everywhere.
This makes me happy to hear about a potential future mh (style?) interface to
imap servers. I had briefly considered something like what Paul Vixie is (I
believe) suggesting could be adapted from prayer, but at the time I thought the
overhead of a personal mh daemon seemed like a dealbreaker. I had that initial
reaction reading Paul’s mail, but since it’s relatively common for my laptop to
run a few hundred processes while doing “nothing”, maybe that’s outdated
thinking.
Sorry for the ramble; mostly what I wanted to say was “interesting idea” and
“I’m glad I’m still following nmh, even if I haven’t really used it in a while”.
Thanks,
~Chad
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