Re: Rmail-mbox branch

[Paul Michael Reilly]

Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > Here's my conundrum.  I'm married to IMAP, for better or worse.  I have my
> > mail on a very reliable RAID5, backed up, fast server.  One under my
>
> Adding proper IMAP support to Rmail is between difficult and impossible,

Distressing but not surprising to hear.  I'm guessing there has been 
discussions around this topic but I can't find any trace.  Do you have a 
reference or can you elaborate?

> but if you limit yourself to using the IMAP protocol in order to
> download your messages (i.e. as if it were just POP), then it should be
> pretty simple and indeed using GNU mailutils's code may give you this
> feature for free.

I am getting my messages now using the mailutil movemail which will 
allow me to use both Rmail/mbox and Thunderbird on a daily basis.

> We do want to bring Emacs's and mailutils's movemail closer.

This is very good to hear.  What else can you tell me?  Is someone 
working on it?  Have constraints been established?  Having movemail 
provide a "synchronize" operation for IMAP seems to make some sense to 
me but in due time I suppose.

-pmr