On Thu, Dec 09, 1999 at 04:17:25PM -0500, Brendan Cully wrote:
> In short, as David says, the bulk of fetchmail's code is dealing with
> weird, quirky POP servers reliably. I for one don't want to try to
> recreate fetchmail's years of experience in mutt. On the other hand, the
> IMAP code is almost entirely just support of the base protocol. If weird
> servers become a problem, I would actually prefer to see the caching
> IMAP server I was talking about in between mutt and the actual server
> over adding workarounds to mutt. Of course the caching IMAP server has
> to exist first...
>
I'm quite happy with an external POP3 program as long as the goal of
making my MUA use it interactively isn't forgotten. The user (mutt is
an mUa yes?) shouldn't really need to know what protocol is used to
get the mail, the user requirements are the same however it's
retrieved.
OK, this is a bit idealistic as there are some things that some
protocols simply can't do, but within that limitation surely mutt
should be trying to provide the user with what s/he needs to
manipulate mail. Philosophical discussions about MUAs, MDAs and MTAs
don't make it easier for me to read my mail.
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