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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@coraid.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 08:26:25 -0500
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] abaco and gmail
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i think what you want is a pop fetcher.  since the point
of mail/fs pop client is to leave the messages on the server,
i think it would make more sense to write mail/fetch or somesuch
to handle cases like this

i don't use gmail, but it seems like it would be worth fixing.
can somebody tell me what webfs is doing wrong?

also, one fundamental problem with the current webfs is that
the interface claims that it handles base url+relative url,
but it doesn't so abaco (and others) try to do it itself.
unfortunately urls are needlessly hairy creatures (c.f.
webfs/url.c:/^merge_relative_path) and abaco's simple algorithm
doesn't always work.

i have a fix for this problem, but it's not been accepted into
sources.

- erik