imap support (was Re: So long and thanks for all the fish)

Chris Garrigues wrote:
> 
> 11 years ago I left the exmh community and returned about a year later.  Good 
> luck with your new tools.  Maybe someday we'll have imap support and you can 
> come back easily.

When I was required to use a GroupWise server, I switched from MH/exmh
POP access to IMAP.  While looking at the various "fetchmail/procmail and
drop it into MH folders" suggestions, I was fortunate enough to stumble
across "exmh-fetchmail", which allows one to replace the "inc" function
with a fetchmail->procmail->inbox solution.

Since I don't recall finding mention of this in the exmh archives, I thought
I'd mention it now.  Here's where I found it:
  http://cvs.dcs.ed.ac.uk/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/exmh-fetchmail/
  http://www.dice.inf.ed.ac.uk/doc/howto/using_exmh_with_exmh.html

Since I don't like anything to happen to my MH folders unless I invoke
it manually, this works great for me.  The only thing I miss is the
periodic exmh "msgchk" functionality to tell me when I have email waiting
to be incorporated.  If I were more of a tcl programmer I could add this
to exmh-fetchmail without much trouble.  Maybe some one of you could help
me with this, and/or it or a similar approach could become part of exmh
in the future....

Regards,

-- 
Marion Hakanson