Re: [Nmh-workers] using maildir as mh mailstore

2010-01-30 Thread Paul Fox
jerrad wrote: > Why? > > What difference does it make if MH's mail store format is "non-standard"? better synergy, i suppose. it might open possibilities for sharing the mailstore with other mailers. frankly, i'm not sure what might be gained. but the more time i spend thinking about it, th

Re: [Nmh-workers] using maildir as mh mailstore

2010-01-30 Thread Jerrad Pierce
Sorry, a little more... Apparently somebody also thought it was a good idea though, and one of the top results from Google for nmh maildir is: http://www.jeenyus.net/linux/mdmh.html Where someone created some reimplementations of MH comamnds for use with maildir; the author seems to have drunk

Re: [Nmh-workers] using maildir as mh mailstore

2010-01-30 Thread Jerrad Pierce
Why? What difference does it make if MH's mail store format is "non-standard"? If you ever need to export things there's packf (although some scripting may be necessary to handle nested folders) to get an mbox. You wouldn't just be sacrificing "esoteric features" of MH, but also much of ability t

[Nmh-workers] using maildir as mh mailstore

2010-01-30 Thread Paul Fox
since i'm sure others have thought about this in the past, i have to ask, even though i think the answer is "no": can anyone see a way of integrating the mh notion of per-message storage with the maildir notion of per-message storage? i've been trying to think of schemes involving hard- or soft-l

Re: [Nmh-workers] Re: should nmh be an MTA or an MUA?

2010-01-30 Thread Earl Hood
On January 29, 2010 at 23:01, Ken Hornstein wrote: > If your interest is to only exchange messages with other > nmh users, then I guess you won't care ... but I would suggest that > if nmh doesn't evolve, at some point there won't be any other nmh > users. I agree. For years, I have used a separ

Re: [Nmh-workers] Success in submitting mail to a secure MTA (was Re: should nmh be an MTA or an MUA?)

2010-01-30 Thread Earl Hood
On January 30, 2010 at 10:49, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote: > > Not sure how it worked since SASL support is not available > > when using sendmail as your mts delivery method. I.e. If > > the SMTP server requires user/pass authentication, sendmail-based > > deliver will not work. > > Sendmail has had

Re: [Nmh-workers] Success in submitting mail to a secure MTA (was Re: should nmh be an MTA or an MUA?)

2010-01-30 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
Not sure how it worked since SASL support is not available when using sendmail as your mts delivery method. I.e. If the SMTP server requires user/pass authentication, sendmail-based deliver will not work. Sendmail has had SASL support for years. The version shipped with your OS might not have

[Nmh-workers] Success in submitting mail to a secure MTA (was Re: should nmh be an MTA or an MUA?)

2010-01-30 Thread Earl Hood
On January 29, 2010 at 16:22, Joel Reicher wrote: > Unless I've misunderstood, this is a problem that was discussed and > solved on comp.mail.mh a couple of years ago. > > http://groups.google.com/group/comp.mail.mh/browse_thread/thread/47e00851b535 > 80b7 Not sure how it worked since SASL suppo