From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 20:11:53 -0300 From: "Felipe Bichued" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] delete mail from mailfs via script In-Reply-To: <20070521230158.50E631E8C1C@holo.morphisms.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20070521224853.GA21979@nibiru.local> <20070521230158.50E631E8C1C@holo.morphisms.net> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 6e41f782-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 This might be of interest: http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sources/contrib/uriel/doc/background/upas.ps I don't know how outdated it is though. Regards. Felipe On 5/21/07, Russ Cox wrote: > > is there any paper on mailfs ? > > I'd like to know how it works - maybe its suited to be used > > in cross-platform MUAs too. > > Nope, just the source. > http://swtch.com/usr/local/plan9/src/cmd/upas/nfs > It is IMAP-only right now and depends on factotum. > > Mailfs is inspired by Plan 9's upas/fs, which is at > http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sources/plan9/sys/src/cmd/upas/fs/ > and documented at > http://plan9.bell-labs.com/magic/man2html/4/upasfs > > There are differences between the two interfaces but they > are pretty minor. The implementations are very different > (mailfs is imap-backed and pages messages in on demand; > upas/fs can read from plan 9's local mail spools, pop3, and imap, > but it keeps the messages all in memory). > > Russ > >