Thus said Ken Hornstein on Wed, 09 Mar 2016 10:18:04 -0500: > 1) I do not think converting and storing incoming messages as UTF-8 is > wise. In terms of just simplicity alone I think messages should be > stored (somewhere) in their on-the-wire format;
I too agree with this position. The email that nmh writes into my Mail folder should not differ from the message that my MTA queued on disk. > 4) In terms of alternate mail stores, be they Maildir or IMAP (I think > those are the two major candidates now, right?), I think those > ideas are interesting. The #1 problem with those ideas is how to > map MH message numbers (which can range 1-MAXINT, with holes) to > the internal key used by those mail stores; everything else is > relatively easy to deal with. What's wrong with the way nmh does it today? Maildir is certainly superior for some of the reasons detailed below, but nmh's Mail store isn't very far off: http://cr.yp.to/proto/maildir.html Also, I'm confused why Maildir and IMAP are both alternate mail stores. Email is stored on server in a Maildir and accessed via IMAP. I don't see them as mutually exclusive. Thanks, Andy -- TAI64 timestamp: 4000000056e19411 _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list Nmh-workers@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers