>I found this ancient discussion very interesting: > >https://groups.google.com/g/comp.mail.mh/c/Qw-ULpfzgew/m/mXb3nhSYfzgJ >Sep 11, 1996 from Ken Yap [Q] Is IMAP being put into next version of MH?
Whoo! Talk about a blast from the past (and I am STILL salty about Jerry Peek basically killing the momentum for a MH fork way back when; admittedly, it finally happened, but we lost a chance for some good work). Moving on ... >The same mont we have an attempt to rewrite mh completely into fmh: > >https://groups.google.com/g/comp.mail.mh/c/t3OmUcgjC7w/m/vPMDwSmGYVAJ >Sep 25, 1996 from Tim Showalter fmg: an IMAP mh >(this is mentioned in the MH FAQ). Man, I forgot about that. I don't think that ever happened? >I wonder if c-client library from UW IMAP project - now >being kind of maintained by Eduardo Chappa at https://repo.or.cz/alpine.git >could be the replacement of "libmh". It does have some (probably limited) >support for mh folders, but this should give the IMAP server access to >the mailboxes, enough to delivery the smartphone notification. I wonder how well that support has been maintained, because it's kind of a fringe case (and my memory of the discussions around the UW IMAP project was the MH folder support never worked all that well). >Writing an mh client utilties with such a library means probably a total nmh >rewrite (with functionality loss), but maybe a shared access to the same set >of folders both by nmh and the imapd could be a half-step solution to >this problem. First off, I don't want to discourge anyone from doing anything that they want to work on and release; if you have an idea, go for it! However, I want to point out that I think having a IMAP server that can access MH folders is probably not useful for the majority of people, becase you'd need to run your own IMAP server. Now, admittedly, the average nmh user today MIGHT be the kind of person who would be willing to run their own IMAP server; I just don't think it will help the average email user, who very probably has access to an IMAP server but lacks the energy/ability to run their own server. But again, if someone wants to write/improve such code, please do so! --Ken
