Re: [9fans] RFC: MailFS-NG

[Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@metux.de>]

* Gabriel Diaz <gabidiaz@gmail.com> wrote:

> > Just downloading isn't enough, would require sync back (and that's
> > gonna be difficult). And having to download several Gig is not
> > an option for me.
> >
> 
> I don't know what kind of storages are you talking about, 

Evrything that can store mail-like messages.

> but the way
> is done by the mail system is just a read-fs and a smtp client, you do
> not write into /mail/fs/mbox to send mail :-?,

Ugh, that's a *big* blocker for me. I *need* to write into 
certain boxes.

> > It has to be an synthetic filesystem, since the server should do
> > most things. As already said: clients should only speak mailfs-ng,
> > and not doing their own storage handling anymore. This also includes
> > things lke filtering, searching, etc.
> 
> why do not start with what we have now? making upasfs to use the
> remote storage, making it able to order mailbox and move messages
> between them and those things? 

I just want to make some clean concepts, and then let's see if 
mailfs is enough or could be easily extendet.

But my feeling is: mailfs won't be enough - I need much more 
functionality.

Remember: mailfs-ng should handle all the mail storage for commonly
used MUAs (eg. Mozilla or Mutt) - the individual MUA should do 
nothing more than just operating within mailfs-ng. 


cu
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