From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 11:09:05 -0500 From: Russ Cox To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Acme mailreader In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: Topicbox-Message-UUID: 1767a032-eace-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 > I've been trying and trying to get mailreading to work > in acme(1) on my OS X system. It works fine on a plan9 > system, e.g. mordor.tip9ug.jp, but I can't work out how to > do the same thing with acme/wily on OS X. Mail is stored > in mbox format, so it ought to be possible; maybe some > paths need amending? > > OS X seems to be fairly p9 friendly; it has open(1), > which is very similar to plumb(1), and lots of remote > services (ftp, mail etc) are mounted as filesystems, so > (despite being a "girls unix" ;-) it should be a pretty > nice host OS for plan9port. as gabi said, you need upas/fs, and i haven't ported it, mainly because pushssl() is unimplemented, and i would have been using it for pop. if you're going to edit mailboxes directly then you can avoid pushssl() but you'll have to work out the right locking code for your flavor of unix, which is not always easy. also upas/fs does its own threading and would need to be converted over to the thread library in order to run on plan9ports. the last straw was that i switched to gmail. i'm not planning to port upas/fs, but i would like to see it happen. if anyone wants to do the work and needs encouragement or direction, feel free to mail me. russ