Ralph wrote: > Thoughts I've had over the years... MH was handy because it integrated > with the Unix command line and filesystem; I still awk, etc., > ~/mail/inbox/* on occasion when nmh's commands don't suffice. That's > good; I don't think nmh should grow every bell and whistle. > > MIME breaks this. If all textual parts were stored in UTF-8 on disk > things would improve once again.
I agree. Grep is a requirement for me. I handle repl of MIME messages by decoding base64-encoded text/plain parts. I actually modify the message (using a script). I realize that not everyone wants to do that, but one of the beauties of nmh is that I can. So I am wary of fundamental changes to nmh's message per file approach. Additional files and/or dbs with metadata would be fine. It would be even better to integrate that decoding into nmh, optionally of course, and I would like to do that some day. I'm also wary of changing the message file naming scheme. anno modifies messages, so it is inconsistent with a naming scheme that includes file size, hash, or other properties. I could probably live without anno, but someone else might consider it important. David _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
