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From: ori@eigenstate.org
To: 9front@9front.org
Subject: Re: [9front] Mail rewrite; open path with stored mails
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2021 13:10:33 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <562F53FC1768DE07BE3E1B6416200AEC@eigenstate.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <EEAD5A4F0EE99833569C690ADC902918@bss-wf.de>

Quoth theinicke@bss-wf.de:
> I have noticed that Mail/Nail does no longer open additional mailboxes if passed a path [containing mails as undecoded MIME messages]. Now I am wondering whether this is by design or it is desirable to reintroduce this.
> 
> That said I can imagine some possibilities for reintroduction:
> 
> 1) change argv parsing to interpret argument like old Mail did (e.g. mbox | path)
> 1a) also reintroduce second optional argument to open mailbox with given mboxname - imho unnecessary, but backwards compatibility?
> 2) introduce this via an additional parameter
> 3) just do it using a script

The goal wasn't for perfect compatibility,
but I have nothing against the feature. I
just didn't use it, and nobody complained
that it was gone until now.

I'd be happy to take a patch for this.

  reply	other threads:[~2021-02-12 22:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-02-12 20:54 theinicke
2021-02-12 21:10 ` ori [this message]
2021-02-13 20:47   ` theinicke
2021-02-13 21:25     ` theinicke
2021-02-13 23:59       ` Alex Musolino
2021-02-14 10:42         ` theinicke
2021-02-14 20:57           ` ori
2021-02-14 22:05             ` theinicke
2021-02-14 22:55           ` Alex Musolino
2021-02-15  8:15             ` theinicke
2021-02-15  9:56               ` theinicke
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2021-02-12 20:50 [9front] Mail rewrite " theinicke

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