What OS & mail client do -you- use?

Mon Oct 27 15:41:23 PST 2003

>> Use to be exmh (I miss exmh: it won't do IMAP).
>
> Aye, I like the benefits of IMAP, but have never been able to persuade
> myself that leaving nmh/exmh/MH-E/mew just to get IMAP would be anything
> but a losing trade.

Wellllllll.......   I once whined about this ("why doesn't somebody make 
exmh do IMAP?"), and came away with the impression that the best minds in 
the world had looked at it, and decided "no bid".

But I'm not going to give up that easily.  The folder display, the folder 
cache, and two features I call "spatial refile" and "z-axis nesting" (you 
exmh users know what I mean) are just too valuable to be lost to history 
like that.  Once you've seen them, nothing else is even tolerable.  (See <a 
href="http://www.jxh.com/slogans.html#suffer">slogan #7</a>.)  I can do 
without MH per se, if I have exmh.

A couple of colleagues of mine have concieved of a new IMAP client library 
(replacing the spaghetti in the UW c-client), which would do most of the 
hard work of managing a local cache -- which is what disconnected mode 
needs -- and of course the server connections.  And then hacking the tcl/tk 
to talk to it might be within reach.  Nothing is firm, yet, except my 
determination.

We're not ready to solicit help, but it will have to get to that stage 
eventually.  Stay tuned.