Re: RMAIL in the next release

[Paul Michael Reilly]

Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > IIRC, there's a special branch of Emacs where RMAIL was modified to
> > not convert the incoming mail to the Babyl format, and instead store
> > it in the mbox fiormat.  I think there was also some support for MIME
> > in that branch.
>
>
> Oops, completely forgot about that one.  We had already decided to merge it
> into the trunk (the reason at the time was to get it better tested), but
> it looks like noone did it.
>
> Is the maintainer of that branch somewhere?  I think it'd be fair to merge
> it in, but only if it's currently considered "fine" by the few people who
> tested it and if the maintainer is around so he can deal with the
> bug reports.

If you're talking about merging the branch in to test it for some 
prolonged period, then go for it.  I will respond to bug reports, 
although it has been many, many months since I last worked on this piece 
of code.  If you have in mind to ship it anytime soon then that is a bad 
idea.  It has not been sufficiently tested to release yet.  In that case 
do the merge right after the release so the code can have a suitable 
test period by the Emacs developers.

-pmr