Paul Vixie <paul@redbarn.org> wrote: >> On Mon, 12 Feb 2018 10:33:51 -0800 Paul Vixie<paul@redbarn.org> wrote: >>> if we wanted the effort of an actual rewrite, we would need to >>> justify the time expenditure with a potentially larger user >>> population, which means reconsideration of features that younger >>> people actually depend on, like imap and mime. i'd be up for that. >> >> What specific mime related features do you have in mind? > i'd like to provide the MH view via FUSE rather than > files-on-disk. rather than using command line utilities to extract a > mime part, i want to access it by ~/Mail/inbox/135/part1.exe or > whatever. So what you mean is that you want an MH-like file arrangement consistently provided over many transports via FUSE. I'm with you on this. On top of that, I'd like a personal IMAP server, *solely* so that my local copy of Thunderbird (or maybe my smartphone IMAP client) can see my archives, and decode HTML emails and iCS attachments intelligently. Because otherwise I mostly live in Emacs/MH-E with HTML interpretation turned off... > what seems to have been lost on the other historians here is that mark > ignored MH when he made imap, and that bernstein ignored MH when he > made Maildir -- and both are _better_ than MH for all modern > purposes. MH is now an eddy pool of the e-mail river. We've talked a lot about the subtle change to move MH to Maildir, and we never quite work out all the wrinkles, and I'd sure like to that. I don't know if rewriting MH in go or rust would be better. I am half-way through each book (one in each bathroom...). Either way, I think it needs to be incremental... to maybe wrapping the (C) library and writing new daemons on top of it would make the most sense. -- ] Never tell me the odds! | ipv6 mesh networks [ ] Michael Richardson, Sandelman Software Works | network architect [ ] mcr@sandelman.ca http://www.sandelman.ca/ | ruby on rails [
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