Re: Is anybody still using these features?

On Tue, 18 Dec 2018 21:04:19 -0500, Ken Hornstein said:
> >Oh, let me just toss "IMAP" in there ;-) (it'd really be nice to be 
> > able to get to my mail store from my mobile phone without resorting to
> > shell + nmh directly).
>
> IMAP is one of my goals for nmh (which is really what you'd need to get
> IMAP into exmh, I think, unless you want to rewrite exmh).  That has been

Doing an IMAP client in tcl is sufficiently ugly that I'm willing to wait for
Ken to write the code. :)

As Ken explained on the nmh-workers list almost 2 years ago:

On Sat, 08 Apr 2017 14:53:58 -0400 Ken Hornstein <[email protected]> wrote:
> I know you know this already, Paul; I'm only repeating it for the
> benefit of others.  The Big Problem with a nmh IMAP backend is how to
> map nmh message numbers (which are persistent, can have gaps) to IMAP
> messages (which are either identified by a non-permament message number
> which ranges from 1-N without gaps or by UID, which is permament).

Getting those in sync during one particular IMAP session isn't too bad. It's
keeping them in sync across weeks or months that causes programmer nightmares.
:)