Re: file storage in IMAP (eventually for Tramp) working and needs testing

[Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc>]

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On Wed, Jan 02 2008, Ted Zlatanov wrote:
> Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de> wrote:
> MA> The more serious work with Tramp is that all file operations towards
> MA> IMAP must be mapped to Emacs' file name handler primitives like
> MA> file-local-copy or write-region. If you want, I could support you a
> MA> little bit(1) in writing a tramp-imap.el.
>
> Sure.  In fact trimp.el is tramp-imap.el, shortened :) The name is not
> important, if you want the latter.  Should it live in Tramp instead of
> Gnus?  If so, imap.el will be needed, and it's only in Emacs after 22 I
> believe.  Any opinions (Reiner?) are welcome.

Emacs 21 (e.g. Gnus 5.9) already has imap.el.  Of course not a current
version, so I don't know if it would be sufficient for
trimp.el/tramp-imap.el.  But I don't think this matters much.  A
library for "file storage in IMAP" should probably be included in
Emacs, either as part of tramp or independently, but not as part of
Gnus (making it possible to save drafts on IMAP would be a very nice
feature for Gnus, of course!).  So you should discuss it on
emacs-devel sooner or later.

Bye, Reiner.
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