From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] acme mail "feature" Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2004 15:45:55 +0100 From: rog@vitanuova.com In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: eb4770ea-eacd-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 > How hard would it be to add a new command "Read" or "MarkRead" similar to > "Delmesg" that just marks the mail as (read)-? this facility would need to be added to upas/fs - that would probably be the main difficulty. of course, you'd have to change the mailbox interface too, and work out where you were going to store the extra data, and make sure that it couldn't become inconsistent. and given that upas/fs can look at different kinds of mailbox, it might not be possible for some mailbox kinds (e.g. pop3). basically it's not trivial, which is probably why no-one has put in the necessary comprehension and implementation effort, given that most people have higher priority items on their lists...