Re: [Nmh-workers] What is MH ? (was: exciting new stuff for 2.0 (IMAP proposal))

2006-01-10 Thread Oliver Kiddle
Ken Hornstein wrote: I have mail stored on an IMAP server. I think it's perfectly reasonable that I should be able to do scan +IMAP:inbox (or however you want to indicate that a particular folder is on an IMAP server; I Why not extend that to +mbox:inbox for mbox folders? Seriously, though,

Re: [Nmh-workers] What is MH ?

2006-01-10 Thread Joel Uckelman
Thus spake Nathan Bailey: Robert Elz wrote: We get offered glimpses from time to time of Jerry Peek's extensive collection of MH add-ons - that is the kind of thing that makes MH worth using. [ Further nifty examples snip'd ] Shouldn't we start an MH wiki? It would be great to see

completion (was Re: [Nmh-workers] What is MH ?)

2006-01-10 Thread Oliver Kiddle
Nathan Bailey wrote: PS: Another couple of things I'd like to see on the MH wiki would be: i) How do you do 'To/Cc/Dcc/Bcc' field completion? (i.e. in the same way the GUI clients do, or web browsers do for URLs). Special bonus if your solution supports an LDAP directory (i.e. not just

Re: [Nmh-workers] What is MH ? (was: exciting new stuff for 2.0 (IMAP proposal))

2006-01-10 Thread Mike O'Dell
Robert Elz wrote: I can't speak to your comfort level, but accessing the files directly is necessary for some usages, and definitely part of what MH offers. aye, laddie (doing my best Cmdr. Montgomery Scott impression) when i had to implement a mandatory document retention policy for

Re: [Nmh-workers] What is MH ? (was: exciting new stuff for 2.0 (IMAP proposal))

2006-01-10 Thread Ken Hornstein
This is flamebait, shame on you. I disagree; I thought it was relatively straightforward, and not intended as flamebait at all. I have mail stored on an IMAP server. I think it's perfectly reasonable that I should be able to do scan +IMAP:inbox (or however you want to indicate that a

Re: [Nmh-workers] What is MH ? (was: exciting new stuff for 2.0 (IMAP proposal))

2006-01-10 Thread Ken Hornstein
I have mail stored on an IMAP server. I think it's perfectly reasonable that I should be able to do scan +IMAP:inbox (or however you want to indicate that a particular folder is on an IMAP server; I Why not extend that to +mbox:inbox for mbox folders? If someone wanted to do that, more power

Re: [Nmh-workers] What is MH ? (was: exciting new stuff for 2.0 (IMAP proposal))

2006-01-10 Thread Igor Sobrado
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Igor Sobrado writes: Why is specifying more than one folder concurrently not possible? Is it a security feature? In other words, I believe that I am asking about using a more flexible getopt(3)-like function with support for the + syntax. I suppose that there is

Re: [Nmh-workers] What is MH ? (was: exciting new stuff for 2.0 (IMAP proposal))

2006-01-10 Thread Chad Walstrom
Ken Hornstein wrote: I have mail stored on an IMAP server. I think it's perfectly reasonable that I should be able to do scan +IMAP:inbox (or however you want to indicate that a particular folder is on an IMAP server; I Oliver Kiddle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why not extend that to

[Nmh-workers] unit and acceptance tests

2006-01-10 Thread Joel Uckelman
If we're going to go through the trouble of cleaning up the codebase, we should really have a test framework. I'd like to start in on such a beast. Does anyone have suggestions about how that should be done? (E.g., acceptance tests would be easiest to do in something other than C. It would be

Re: [Nmh-workers] unit and acceptance tests

2006-01-10 Thread Igor Sobrado
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tethys writes: Joel Uckelman writes: (E.g., acceptance tests would be easiest to do in something other than C. It would be good if those were done in whatever language people were most likely to contribute tests in. So what language?) Bourne shell. It may