In the message dated: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 13:37:15 EST, The pithy ruminations from Ken Hornstein on <Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh @ gsoc?> were: => >Why? nmh doesn't need any new features, and the code is stable and => >portable. => > => >The best indicator that a chunk of code is mature is when it hasn't been => >touched for five years. It ain't broke, so leave it alone. => => Uuuhhh ... yeah, okay. That is certainly ONE possible interpretation. => Another possible (and much more likely) interpretation: no one uses nmh => very much anymore, so no one cares about fixing/improving it. I don't => know about you, but when I go to look at a software package and I see => the last new release was 5 years ago, my first thought isn't, "Oh, it's => perfect! That's why they stopped developing it!"; it's "Oh, I guess => that project is dead". =>
[SNIP!] => Here are some pie-in-the-sky things I would like: => I'll add my wish-list: + minor bug fixes (for example, the NAMESZ limit that affects scan listings) + improved MIME handling, particularly for replies + improved attachment handling (supression(?) of replies to messages with attachments) + threading. I do some threading with exmh, but that's kind of a hack. One idea would be to present "threads" through ordered sequence lists, rather than by re-numbering each message. This would multiple sorted views of a folder (ie., sorted by date, subject, sender, threaded, etc.) without the overhead of renumbering files. + masquerading: we've probably all got multiple email accounts ($WORK, personal, gmail, etc.). I like to use [ex|n]mh as a single interface, but I want composed mail and replies to reflect different accounts (identities) correctly. I've written a wrapper to "repl" for this, but that functionality should probably be within nmh, so that the actions that arise from selecting a persona are available to all programs that send mail (repl, comp, forw). For example, selecting a persona may alter some or all of: From: address, Reply-To: address, Fcc folder, X-* headers, signature lines, quoting style, even different SMTP server[s] The very brevity of my wish lists reflects the mature level of the nmh code...or just my personal ossification. :) Thanks, Mark _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list Nmh-workers@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers