Re: [Nmh-workers] GCC 8 pre-releases have escaped...

[Ken Hornstein]

>I've been wondering if a long-lived MH server would be helpful.  `scan
>+inbox last:42' would connect to it, learn the message numbers in inbox,
>and ask for the fields it wants for the format string for the last 42.
>The server would likely have this information to hand, and if not, go to
>work, readdir(), opening files, parsing, decoding, etc.

Is it me or does that sound a whole lot like IMAP? :-)

--Ken