From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 18:44:53 +0100 From: Enrico Weigelt To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] RFC: MailFS-NG Message-ID: <20080108174453.GA10899@nibiru.local> References: <20080106205336.GA31855@nibiru.local> <82c890d00801070901w349570cdgc7f7d48a24d1ff4e@mail.gmail.com> <20080107184213.GA30950@nibiru.local> <82c890d00801080004s6f191fcbsdfa6f870e585edef@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <82c890d00801080004s6f191fcbsdfa6f870e585edef@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Topicbox-Message-UUID: 28bd64fc-ead3-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 * Gabriel Diaz 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 -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrico Weigelt == metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please visit the OpenSource QM Taskforce: http://wiki.metux.de/public/OpenSource_QM_Taskforce Patches / Fixes for a lot dozens of packages in dozens of versions: http://patches.metux.de/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------