>This is a good point. I wonder if Tobias' feature belongs in a future >release of nmh, where we'd have time to discuss things like the >fascinating question Earl brought up: what about IMAP? I had a few >major questions and concerns in my own long reply. There's a lot that >nmh needs to do to catch up with changes in the email world since MH was >created in the mid-20th century.
I think that IMAP is doable, if the work can be put into it. I don't think you're going to get _all_ of nmh's features, but scan/show/rmm/refile should be relatively simple. >It would be a *real* shame to break nmh's programmability, or some >feature that's useful but obscure, by not discussing and testing it >thoroughly. Once people start to use a new feature, there'll be >resistance to backing out a poor implementation and (re-)doing it right. > I'm not saying that Tobias would implement something poorly, just that >it's hard to get very new and fundamental changes right without lots of >thought and testing... > >Ken, is it too soon to start a development branch for nmh-2.0 (or 5.0 :)? Heh, my feeling is put it all on the head, and if it's a real problem, we can back it out on a release branch. --Ken
