RE: mailbox format(s)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] 
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Brett Watson
> Sent: Friday, February 27, 2004 3:31 AM
> To: mail-ng mailinglist
> Subject: Re: mailbox format(s)
> 
> 
> Users want...
> 
> * to be able to switch MUAs without losing their mail data, 
> addressbook data, or other account settings. (This covers the 
> case where the user has more than one MUA installed on a 
> given machine at a given time.) On the other hand, they may 
> want to have distinct accounts on distinct MUAs, so this does 
> not imply that all MUAs must have the same settings. Tricky.

This calls for a unified format of settings files, with the possibility
for MUAs to reference / include them without breaking. This way, server
addresses, port numbers and login names would typically be in a shared
repository (file/DB), while highly application-specific settings
(generally a Bad Thing, but to avoid it implies having a huge set of
standardized settings) would be stored separately.

I.e.:
* Users want to be able to share settings between MUAs.
* Users want to be able to override and add settings to the general ones
for specific MUAs.

Yours sincerely,
-- 
Victor Engmark
Quid quid latine dictum sit, altum viditar - What is said in latin,
sounds profound