🚀 go-pugleaf

Jamie Zawinski writes:
 > What about the editing/reordering/reformatting headers issue?
 > Does MH leave the original headers unmolested in that case as
 > well?  If so, go for it, dude!

I'm not sure what MH does about header display.  But I'm
sufficiently displeased with VM's header handling that I'd do it
differently.

 > I think an approach where there was a single file that
 > contained only folder information, with the messages
 > themselves in seperate files, might make the mail equivalent
 > of meta-dot easier to implement as well (following references
 > that point to messages that are in different folders, that
 > sort of thing.)

Quite so.  Such a file could be constructed from the existing
folders, so we don't have to have do the switch all at once.

 > Have any of you had experience with IMAP?  My understanding is
 > that it's basically a database system for email, where the
 > various clients retrieve message bodies and cross-reference
 > information by talking to a server, which indexes them under
 > their message-ids.  The concept of a "folder" isn't in the
 > database itself.

I've no experience with it.