On Mon, 24 Jun 2002, at 5:36pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Yeah, but you know, I'd really like to be able to use (ex)mh as an 
> interface to an IMAP server.

  I've said this before: The Right Thing here would be to do this as a
filesystem driver.  Said filesystem driver would read an IMAP server, and
present it to the client as a system of MH-style directories and files.  
This would allow you to use any current and/or future MH tools on an IMAP
server.

  Implementation is left as an exercise for the reader.  ;-)

On Mon, 24 Jun 2002, at 5:40pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Doesn't IMAP have commands to only grab headers and to re-file a msg?

  Yes.

> Of course, I do wierd things like actually filter and sort based on body
> content as well, which would then require tranferring the msg from the
> server to the client for processing, then sending it back to the server
> for filing.

  No, you would only need to transfer it to the client.  Once the client
made the decision, it could simply move the message using IMAP commands.

> Since exmh doesn't have direct IMAP support, it made more sense to run the
> client on the mail server.

  I might argue it makes more sense to fix the mail client.  ;-)

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