Re: status?

[Carlos Morgado <chbm chbm nu>]

On Mon, 08 May 2000 13:10:10 Pawel Salek wrote:
> 
> On 2000-05-07 21:16 Carlos Morgado wrote:
> > >From where i stand, pop (and imap possibly - haven't focused on that)
> is
> > very fragile. It totally breaks when a server is unreachable and imho
> the
> > network part of libmutt is non salvagable. 
> 
> My impression (IMAP-based) is much more positive: yes, the code is
> fragile but the design isn't really bad, the code should check more often
for
> error conditions and that basically all that needs to be changed in the IMAP
> part of the code (I would love to implement IMAP searching, but this is

I have no griefs with IMAP and honestly my clue about imap is next to none. I
wasn't clear enough, what i mean is non salvagable is the pop3 part. The whole
code looks bad and fixing it would be a pain imho. Also it's the smallest set
of pop you can have to actually retrieve msgs and from reading fetchmail i'm
almost sure it breaks with some servers. That's why i mentioned "reusing" a
sane and proved pop3 implementation.

> rather of secondary priority). Speaking of searching: incoming mail
> filtering you mentioned is one thing but what do you think guys about
virtual
> folders, say, I want to find all the messages from my boss where he mentions
> salary rise? the results could be collected to one virtual folder; one
> could later save this folder to a file, etc.
> 

Body searching is a pain (mutt pretty much avoids it by not allowing body
scoring). If you have to pontentially deal with lots of stuff, nutty
attatchments and such. Apart from that is a neat feature not much mailers
have.
How are you considering the virtual folder stuff ? DBs of msgs indexes
pointing
to real folders ? That's needs some care when shufling stuff about. you need
to
go look into all the virtual folders and update the refs. or do you mean serch
once, save once, forget it ?

New stuff: when i have the time i'll look into a pre-connect feature for
pop3/imap. it's trivial for pop3 but i really don't know know imap is laid
out.

2 questions: why is balsa so slow ? i can't type faster than the characters
will appear on editing window. and why isn't the "view" pane a regular text box ?
so that we can show image attachments on the canvas ?

cheers

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