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To: weigelt@metux.de, 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] delete mail from mailfs via script
From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@swtch.com>
Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 19:03:51 -0400
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> is there any paper on mailfs ? 
> I'd like to know how it works - maybe its suited to be used
> in cross-platform MUAs too.

Nope, just the source.  
http://swtch.com/usr/local/plan9/src/cmd/upas/nfs
It is IMAP-only right now and depends on factotum.

Mailfs is inspired by Plan 9's upas/fs, which is at
http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sources/plan9/sys/src/cmd/upas/fs/
and documented at
http://plan9.bell-labs.com/magic/man2html/4/upasfs

There are differences between the two interfaces but they
are pretty minor.  The implementations are very different
(mailfs is imap-backed and pages messages in on demand;
upas/fs can read from plan 9's local mail spools, pop3, and imap,
but it keeps the messages all in memory).

Russ