Debian package (was: Efficiency issues/thoughts)

Jens Peter Secher <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.ifile.general
Organization DIKU
Message-ID <[email protected]>
[email protected] writes:

> > Btw, like you mentioned, it would be nice to pull out blocks of encoded 
> > information.  Might even be worth doing a minimal MIME parse.  Also, in 
> > case you didn't see it, take a look at Chris Brown's post from a 8/23.  
> 
> Will-do.  Yahoo makes reading the archives mildly painful, so I admit
> to not having read them all.

Indeed, I cannot read some of the old messages due to rotten
cookies...

But to stay on topic, I think it is wrong to build any special parsing
into ifile (like MIME, headers, signatures, etc.).  I think that such
a job should be carried out by other (small) programs designed for
that purpose (ie., the Unix way).  Rationale: such small programs can
be used by other programs, and when standards change, there is just
one place to adapt that change.

I am new to ifile, so it might be complete gibberish, but is it not
possible to let the above small programs separate each email into a
number of parts, and then pass each of these parts to ifile but using
different databases, thereby achieving what you want?

In <[email protected]>, Jeremy wrote:

> An alpha attempt at integrating ifile with gnus is now available at:
> <http://www.ai.mit.edu/~jhbrown/ifile-gnus.html>

Cool!  I am making a Debian GNU/Linux package containing ifile and the
Grant Taylor procmail interfacing stuff.  (By the way, the Grant
Taylor link on the ifile web page is not working.)  I will put the
gnus stuff into the Debian package, as well, if you don't mind.

Cheers,
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