Hi Ken, > > I've been wondering if a long-lived MH server would be helpful. > > `scan +inbox last:42' would connect to it, learn the message numbers > > in inbox, and ask for the fields it wants for the format string for > > the last 42. The server would likely have this information to hand, > > and if not, go to work, readdir(), opening files, parsing, decoding, > > etc. > > Is it me or does that sound a whole lot like IMAP? :-)
:-) I don't know IMAP, but is there an IMAP server out there that will be happy when I overwrite a hunk of ~/mail/inbox/42 in place? IMAP's a textual protocol so we'd be switching one lot of text parsing in scan for another. Would pick(1), when talking to `our' IMAP implementation, make use of extensions to the protocol to save it effort, and fallback if it's vanilla IMAP? -- Cheers, Ralph. https://plus.google.com/+RalphCorderoy -- Nmh-workers https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
