From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 26266 invoked from network); 7 Jun 1999 15:25:22 -0000 Received: from sunsite.auc.dk (130.225.51.30) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 7 Jun 1999 15:25:22 -0000 Received: (qmail 9941 invoked by alias); 7 Jun 1999 15:24:54 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.auc.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 6507 Received: (qmail 9934 invoked from network); 7 Jun 1999 15:24:53 -0000 Message-ID: <375BCD12.B041EF12@thoth.u-net.com> Date: Mon, 07 Jun 1999 14:45:54 +0100 From: Oliver Kiddle X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Peter Stephenson CC: Zsh hackers list Subject: Re: MAIL, MAILPATH and maildir support References: <9906031408.AA18693@ibmth.df.unipi.it> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Peter Stephenson wrote: > > A module with more powerful mail commands is a reasonable idea, but I have > some reservations. First, if this is going to be a largish add-on, basic > UNIX mail-file checking (as it currently exists) should probably stay in > the basic shell, since pretty much everybody (? I presume) uses that --- Fair enough, having a huge module loaded for simple checking would be wasteful. I don't actually use the mail-file checking myself though. > big undertaking. Third, anybody who wants to use individual commands > rather than a monolothic program to get at the mail is probably well > advised to use MH or some other existing system (the problem with mainting > a connection that made zftp useful as a module doesn't exist). I'll start by having a look at MH and see if that will serve my purposes well. If not I'll have a go at writing something myself (unless someone else beats me to it). I've got a lot of other things to do before so don't expect to hear anything more about this from me in for quite a long time. > Nonetheless, if you've got some good ideas for what should go in such a > module --- or even some code --- it would be interesting to see them. My ideas are basically to first have most of the basic functionality of mailx and mush: listing and displaying a message. In addition there would be powerful commands for selecting messages (like the mush pick command) and operating on dynamic folders. Oliver Kiddle