Much as I love Plan9, only a masochist would use it for email.I agreed with Carmack as recently as 1997: "I spent a few months running Plan9. It has an achingly elegent internal structure, but a user interface that has been asleep for the past decade."

On 14 October 2014 12:55, Anthony Sorace <a@9srv.net> wrote:

On Oct 13, 2014, at 12:46 , Eduardo Alvarez <astrochelonian@gmail.com> wrote:

> Have you considered other mailbox formats, such as maildir, for instance? Seems
> that it could solve at least some of the problem.

nupas uses a maildir-like format. It helps tremendously.

Really: if you're doing mail on Plan 9, you want to be running nupas.