Re: [Edbrowse-dev] imap

[Adam Thompson <arthompson1990@gmail.com>]

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On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 11:26:15AM -0700, Chris Brannon wrote:
> Adam Thompson <arthompson1990@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > Given how many linux clients support imap (including a very ed-like email
> > client) I'd be very surprised and disapointed if a decent library isn't
> > available for this.
> 
> Do you mean heirloom-mailx (AKA nail)?
> It's quite ed-like, being based on Berkeley mail from the teletype era.
> The IMAP support is fine.  It handles multiple folders and multiple
> accounts.

Yeah that was the one. I admit, being a long-time mutt user,
I've not played with it that much but it looks kind of interesting.

Getting back to edbrowse though, we need to decide how much mail client support we want.
For example do we want to do maildir, mbox etc for local mailboxes as well as imap and pop3 (with their secure equivalents I hope) for remote ones?
What about pgp and the like for signing messages?
Or threads?

I only mention these because, just like with the browser element,
if we start adding things to the mail client, users will, quite rightly,
request more features.
Given the number of things edbrowse already does,
I guess I'm just concerned that it's going to become too big for its own good
by trying to do too many things.

Cheers,
Adam.

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