Thanks for the many responses and active discussion.
I agree that MIME support should be improved. For people in non-English speaking Countries, like me, bad MIME handling is a big argument against nmh. But also the point of how to handle attachments in replies should be worked on. Also, threading is a main point. This must fit into the existing design. Hooks (or scripting support) might be a good point too. I can't decide for me yet. At least, one should give it a try. TLS seems to be already solved. However, why does nmh need TLS? Doesn't it delegate mail transfer to an MTA? IMAP is surely of interest. But I think this should not be the job of nmh, but of a FUSE layer below, as some already said. There might not be the danger of too many storage backends, but conceptional, such stuff does not belong into a MUA. (Because I don't use IMAP, this would probably not be a good job for me.) Lyndon said that nmh does not need someone like me to work on it. Don't get me wrong, I surely don't want to add lots of features. I don't want to break stuff. I don't think nmh should be changed. In contrast, I think nmh is great like it is, but there are always things to work on. This shall be work to support nmh, not to change it or to blow it up. Nmh bases on the Unix Philosophy -- I am convinced that this is the right way to design good software. The development on nmh slowed down much, but nmh is not dead. There might be few users, but the idea behind nmh is great ... and nmh is the only MUA to follow this idea. That alone is reason enough. I see a big chance for nmh in gsoc. Why not go for it? Appying under NetBSD's umbrella is surely a good way to go. Being an own mentor organization might make it more difficult to get accepted. But why not, if there is someone who cares for a good application? In any case, you have to provide descriptions, a roadmap, a goal, a vision and similar stuff. Maybe someone has experience. meillo _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
