Re: [Nmh-workers] Future directions for nmh

[Ken Hornstein]

>>4) In terms of alternate mail stores, be they Maildir or IMAP (I think
>>those are the two major candidates now, right?), I think those ideas
>>are interesting.  The #1 problem with those ideas is how to map MH
>>message numbers (which can range 1-MAXINT, with holes) to the internal
>>key used by those mail stores; everything else is relatively easy
>>to deal with.
>
>I can't quite tell if by "alternate", you meant optional. I certainly hope
>so.

I am not proposing that we replace the current MH mailstore with Maildir,
if that's what you mean.  You should still be able to use the traditional
MH mailstore (and we'll keep that the default) for the forseeable future.

I am saying that we have people who want to use the nmh tools with both
IMAP and Maildir mailstores.  So making the nmh tools work with those
mailstores would be useful.

--Ken