Re: MAIL, MAILPATH and maildir support

[Oliver Kiddle <opk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Peter Stephenson wrote:
> 
> A module with more powerful mail commands is a reasonable idea, but I have
> some reservations.  First, if this is going to be a largish add-on, basic
> UNIX mail-file checking (as it currently exists) should probably stay in
> the basic shell, since pretty much everybody (? I presume) uses that ---

Fair enough, having a huge module loaded for simple checking would be
wasteful. I don't actually use the mail-file checking myself though.

> big undertaking.  Third, anybody who wants to use individual commands
> rather than a monolothic program to get at the mail is probably well
> advised to use MH or some other existing system (the problem with mainting
> a connection that made zftp useful as a module doesn't exist).

I'll start by having a look at MH and see if that will serve my purposes
well. If not I'll have a go at writing something myself (unless someone
else beats me to it). I've got a lot of other things to do before so
don't expect to hear anything more about this from me in for quite a
long time.

> Nonetheless, if you've got some good ideas for what should go in such a
> module --- or even some code --- it would be interesting to see them.

My ideas are basically to first have most of the basic functionality of
mailx and mush: listing and displaying a message. In addition there
would be powerful commands for selecting messages (like the mush pick
command) and operating on dynamic folders.

Oliver Kiddle