Ken Hornstein writes: > >All of the email about which I care has ASCII subject lines. > >Also, I often grep for a particular attachment name. > > Right or wrong, I get subject lines that are encoded using RFC 2047 > rules. I know you think of those as 'foreign languages', but that is > wrong; they are just 'characters'. Also, if you talk to anyone younger > than 25 you're going to be getting a fair number of emoji. It's fair to > say that you don't care about that stuff, but I think as younger people > get older they are going to consider things like emoji as 'normal', and > it's something that we have to deal with. Again, it's fine if you want > to just send and receive email between old farts, but I would kindly > suggest that's not appropriate for everyone.
I do have teenagers. It's not an issue, because email is a last resort for them. Maybe we need support for instagram as a mail store :-) > >Glad to hear it. Never got any feedback on 'em so it's cool to hear that > >people are using them. > > We had a big discussion about them based on Jarrad's work with his > MIME hooks (we had never really laid down how locking was supposed to > work with them). Must have missed that. But in any case, it sounds like it supports my request that the hooks be made more robust. > >I'm a bit confused here. I use nmh because I can reach the command store > >via the command line. What other way is their to use it? And other > >programs can operate on the mail store, which is part of what makes it > >great. > > I believe Paul is saying that he wants to have the command-line power of > nmh work on mail stores he shares with other MUAs. To me, that is > an admirable goal. Yes, I get it now that Paul has clarified it. > It is KIND of true that a subset of MUAs can sort-of operate on a MH > mail store, but that's only true if basically you disregard any sort > of support for sequences and locking. And I don't see that support > becoming more common, as MH/nmh isn't getting many new adherents because > of (among other things) lousy MIME support. From where I'm sitting, the > two major mailstores in use today are Maildir and IMAP. Paul would be > happy with either, since he has access to his IMAP mailserver which > uses Maildir as it's backend storage, but I think it would be great > if we could do both. > > I understand this may have no particular interest to you; that is fine, > but in my mind there is a clear need. No problem. I was just stating what I'd like. The only time that I'm likely to object to something that someone else wants is when it breaks things. Jon _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list Nmh-workers@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers