>> If anyone is required to use Office 365 for their $DAYJOB but still >> wish to use your favorite MUA, here's a quick recipe that worked for >> me and might work for you. > >Is there a man page for interfacing nmh to foreign odd-ball systems? >Should there be? Or somewhere else in the documentation other than the >mailing-list archive?
Hm, good questions. I mentioned in my 1.8 to-do list that "improved security documentation" was on that. That would be sort of coalescing the information in inc(1), send(1), and other places and sort of explain how they all work in something that is hopefully more clear, because it's probably not obvious to the average user why you need -sasl to make authentication in send(1) work, but you don't necessarily need it for inc(1), or what exactly is the difference between -tls and -initialtls. So, HOPEFULLY that would be a starting point for people to get things like inc(1) and send(1) working with oddball systems. I think the man pages shipping with nmh should be as "timeless" as possible, if that makes sense. By that I mean they should document how nmh works, with appropriate references to protocol standards (which are not necesarily static but change relatively slowly), with as few dependences on external software as possible. So putting a pointer in there to an external piece of software like DavMail feels wrong to me ... who knows if DavMail is even going to be around in a few years? I sure HOPE it is, but it might be abandoned or supplanted by something else. And we've seen a number of users who use version of nmh that are 5-10 years out of date so if we did put references to other software packages those references stick around possibly way past their usefulness. But I get your point that this accumulated wisdom should probably be collected somewhere, because having to search the mailing list for these kind of things kind of sucks. It also makes it hard for new users who think that Office 365 precludes the use of nmh so they don't even try it. Also, having a place where these things are available would expose people to other software; I didn't even know DavMail was a thing until Andy Bradford mentioned it here a few weeks ago! I am wondering if maybe we should put some recipes off of the nmh home page? And maybe make the man pages refer to that? And Ralph, would you want to write some of those web pages? :-) --Ken -- nmh-workers https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
