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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu, Dan Cross <cross@math.psu.edu>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] acme mail on unix
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Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 08:58:04 -0500
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i'm not sure what you have available in your environment, but you
could get around the slow imap connection by running upas/fs, 
which can be mounted as a normal fs on linux-2.6.n, n>=13.

i don't use mh, but your description of an mh directory sounds
compatable with the upas/fs layout.

i've been running upas/fs for about 2 months against an imap
server had have no problems.

- erik

Dan Cross <cross@math.psu.edu> writes

| 
| On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 11:24:36AM -0500, Russ Cox wrote:
| > Eventually I might replace the mh programs with code from
| > Plan 9 (still leaving the mh disk layout) but I don't expect to
| > do that any time soon.
| 
| Personally, I'd rather that wasn't the case.  I'd rather see a version of
| the MH utilities (or a subset of the useful ones) that know how to deal with
| Maildir or IMAP (given the discrete nature of the MH commands, the latter
| might be hard and/or slow).
| 
| 	- Dan C.