I'm a lurker here on nmh-workers and now one of a small but growing group of people working on the exmh MUA which most of you on this list know "layers" a graphical interface onto MH/nmh. The author of exmh, Brent Welch, finds himself in a position similar to Richard Coleman: under time constraints that prevent him from moving the program forward. He has placed it on a net CVS repository with write access granted to a group of volunteers. On the to-do list for exmh is addition of LDAP as an "address book" using OpenLDAP or something similar. As was rightly pointed out such things really should go in to the underlying nmh code so they are accessible "from the command line". So. The question is: how could such a thing be "hooked in" to nmh? I'm not as familiar with nmh as I should be. Should this go in to the ali command? Is there a more "general" mechanism already in nmh for address lookup? Can a new "look up ldap entry" command be created and easily "hooked" into post and/or send and/or whom? Or has someone already done this and we just need to point to it? -Hal <*> I started out with nothing...I still have most of it.
