From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <82c890d00801070901w349570cdgc7f7d48a24d1ff4e@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 18:01:42 +0100 From: "Gabriel Diaz" To: weigelt@metux.de, "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] RFC: MailFS-NG In-Reply-To: <20080106205336.GA31855@nibiru.local> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20080106205336.GA31855@nibiru.local> Cc: Topicbox-Message-UUID: 28540e62-ead3-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Hello what about something (or a couple of things) that parse rss, netnews, etc into a mailbox file like the ones in /mail/box/$user ? that way you could still use the mail tools as they are :-? btw, is there someone implementing what Russ said about upasfs from p9p? (a mailbox or maildir module iirc) having an upasfs which do not store all in ram would be great :) slds. gabi On Jan 6, 2008 9:53 PM, Enrico Weigelt wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > I've started to design an new filesystem for univeral mail/message > (as replacement for mailfs), which should be able to cope with all > kind of mail-alike messages (including NetNews, RSS, etc) and is > meant to (ideally) be the primary/only interface for MUAs. > > This of course requires a lot of more functionality, eg. handling > subscriptions, authentication (to the actual server) and misc > configuration stuff. > > My current ideas can be seen at: > > * http://oss-qm.metux.de/index.php/9forge/mailfs-ng > > > What do you think about this ? > > > 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/ > --------------------------------------------------------------------- >