[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

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 to

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

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, the