Re: [hosers-talk] imap servers?

[Tom Plagge <tplagge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> As lame as webmail normally is, it would still be very nice to have. I 
> love nmh, but it sucks for attachments. If someone sends me a picture, I 
> usually just forward it on to my yahoo account to look at it, rather than 
> doing an mhstore and scp'ing the picture around. Webmail is good with 
> attachments. And sometimes a good ssh client just isn't available. 
> Finally, I can set up an email server with webmail and let newbies (read: 
> Erin) use it, while maintaining full control over the data.

If you have an X server running, it's pretty easy to deal with attachments
by modifying your .mh_profile's mhn-show-xxxxx lines.  Just have it pop up
xview or something.  And naturally, you can have a .bashrc line that chooses
the appropriate .mh_profile for your terminal when you log in.  That's how
I had it set up on my old mail server, though I haven't implemented it yet
on my current one.
 
> So, cool. I will check out Dovecot. Worse comes to worst, I can maybe 
> source all mail from the imap server and use nmh as only a dumb front end.
> 
> I really wish nmh development wasn't stuck in the stone age. The project 
> seems to have been killed, more or less, by the savannah attack last year. 
> It's a good example of how baroque software turns to rubble; they had to 
> emulate all the stupid little "features" of mh, and now they've got an 
> albatross of a codebase.

Yeah, it's really lame.  I'm almost motivated enough to start hacking it
myself, but I just got a gmail account so I might just switch over to that
instead.  I really like the idea of MH, but it's just clunky enough to
annoy me on a consistent basis.
-t

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Tom Plagge                              UC Berkeley Physics Dept.
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Berkeley, CA  94720                     Email: tplagge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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