From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org
X-Spam-Level: 
X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=ham
	autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4
Received: (qmail 11151 invoked from network); 12 Feb 2021 22:20:40 -0000
Received: from 1ess.inri.net (216.126.196.35)
  by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 12 Feb 2021 22:20:40 -0000
Received: from mimir.eigenstate.org ([206.124.132.107]) by 1ess; Fri Feb 12 16:10:45 -0500 2021
Received: from abbatoir.fios-router.home (pool-74-101-2-6.nycmny.fios.verizon.net [74.101.2.6])
	by mimir.eigenstate.org (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTPSA id a89072c7 (TLSv1.2:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:256:NO)
	for <9front@9front.org>;
	Fri, 12 Feb 2021 13:10:35 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <562F53FC1768DE07BE3E1B6416200AEC@eigenstate.org>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
To: 9front@9front.org
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2021 13:10:33 -0800
From: ori@eigenstate.org
In-Reply-To: <EEAD5A4F0EE99833569C690ADC902918@bss-wf.de>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
List-ID: <9front.9front.org>
List-Help: <http://lists.9front.org>
X-Glyph: ➈
X-Bullshit: immutable overflow-preventing descriptor self-signing manager 
Subject: Re: [9front] Mail rewrite; open path with stored mails
Reply-To: 9front@9front.org
Precedence: bulk

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.