Re: [9fans] UPAS, IMAP, and SMTP

[erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>]

> However,
> 	echo open '/imaps/imap.gmail.com/user@example.com/All Mail' > /mail/fs/ctl
> seems to create /mail/fs/Mail, but says it does not exist when I try
> to to access it.  Quite weird.  Is it just a naming problem with the
> space, or something different?

i think i mentioned this before.  this is a quirk of upas/nedmail —
there are a few cases where ned assumes that you don't
mean the already-open mailbox in /mail/fs and tries to
reopen the same in /mail/box/$user.  this can result in
doubly-opened mailboxes.  this is no big deal for small,
local mailboxes.  but with upas, it's a big pain if your
mailbox is big and doesn't work if your mailbox doesn't
live in /mail/box/$user

i didn't think this behavior was helpful, so i changed
ned to prefer already-open mailboxes:

	; useupas
	; echo open /mail/box/quanstro/t Mail > /mail/fs/ctl
	; upas/nedmail -f Mail
	!can't 'open Mail Mail': '/mail/box/quanstro/Mail' does not exist
	upas/nedmail: can't read
	; usenupas
	; echo open /mail/box/quanstro/x Mail >/mail/fs/ctl
	minooka; upas/nedmail -f Mail
	4 messages

acme Mail already does the right thing as
far as i can tell.

- erik