On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 02:14:01PM -0800, Stewart Stremler wrote: > begin quoting Lan Barnes as of Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 11:15:57AM -0800: > [snip] > > Those are all great ideas and I haven't gotten that far. Ideally it > > would be a pop down app of its own so any MUA could call it. Ideally it > > "pop down"? > > You're thinking of a standalone application?
Yeah. Sort of. Anyway, something independent enough that it could be used with other MUAs. > > > would work for both mdirs and mbox. I'm assuming it could use the > > threading header to uniquely ID the mail and find it later. > > True... if I go and re-arrange mail, I don't want to have that > break the database. "Whoops, ~/Mail/KPLUG/12345678 isn't there, > I don't care if you moved it to ~/Mail/2004/KPLUG/12345678!" > What, then, is the algorithm? We need something in the data base that points to the mail so you can find it quickly. How we gonna do that? Does it have to be dynamic and rewrite itself when mail gets moved around? How does it know when mail is deleted? Maybe this would have to be specific to one MUA in order to be intimate enough to know when those operations are taking place. > > Probably good to have a mode for cataloging old mail. > > True. > > > The data base and entry screen part are close to trivial for me. The > > rest -- understanding mail, calling from an MUA, etc, call for research. > > Mail is pretty simple, and calling out from mutt is likewise not hard > (IIRC). :) > > > My first research was to ask if anyone knew of such an app all done and > > ready to go :-) > > Not that I know of, but I'm just as interested as you are... > I'm just spitballing ... you're helping. A nobler application, helping. > -Stewart "It seems like an obvious thing to do..." Stremler <sigh> if it's obvious and still not done, it's probably hoplessly complicated. Better wo/men have blunted their picks on this before, I fear. -- Lan Barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Guy, SCM Specialist 858-354-0616 -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
