From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <12AC9E2C-4B7A-4B7C-8420-EA7F68473CD6@9srv.net> References: <3f0b54378d4d9670e206e0b6428ce886@ladd.quanstro.net> <20141013164635.GB27251@hypnotoad> <12AC9E2C-4B7A-4B7C-8420-EA7F68473CD6@9srv.net> Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2014 15:41:24 +1300 Message-ID: From: Winston Kodogo To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=047d7bfcf9d284b44a050558f3bf Subject: Re: [9fans] Setting up Mail in Acme on the Raspberry Pi. Topicbox-Message-UUID: 1b3561bc-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 --047d7bfcf9d284b44a050558f3bf Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 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 wrote: > On Oct 13, 2014, at 12:46 , Eduardo Alvarez > 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. > > --047d7bfcf9d284b44a050558f3bf Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Much as I love Plan9, only a masochist would use it for em= ail.I agreed with Carmack as recently as 1997: "I spent a few months r= unning Plan9. It has an achingly elegent internal=20 structure, but a user interface that has been asleep for the past=20 decade."

On 14 October 2014 12:55, Anthony Sorace <a@9srv.net> wrote:<= br>
On Oct 13, 2014, at 12:4= 6 , Eduardo Alvarez <astroch= elonian@gmail.com> wrote:

> Have you considered other mailbox formats, such as maildir, for instan= ce? 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.

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