-------- Original Message -------- From: Johan Commelin <[email protected]> Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2013 15:27:50 +0200 Subject: Re: [S-nail] Are s-nail and mh related? To: Steffen Daode <[email protected]>
Dear Steffen, Thank you very much for your reply. I understand your arguments, and I especially like what you are saying in the last paragraphs. It is hypthetic, but it seems to me that it would be perfect for all sorts of synergetic scripting. I will keep thinking about integrating a mail client with the shell… Best, Johan On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 3:09 PM, Steffen Daode <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Johan Commelin <[email protected]> wrote: > |I am a bit confused, hopefully you can help me out. I would be very > |glad to use mh-like commands (mhshow, next, prev, ...) with an IMAP > |mailbox (possibly synced with offlineIMAP). It seems that s-nail is > |the way forward for those of us that want a CLI mail client with tight > |shell integration. > | > |But when I start s-nail, I am dropped into a monolith program. That > > From my point of view that is not what S-nail is about. S-nail is > in the tradition of BSD Mail, which is a monolithic program. > Thus i'm also not sure that S-nail is a way forward :) > > |is, I can not: > |> freely intersperse nmh commands with other commands > |> at your shell prompt, or write custom scripts which use > |> these commands in flexible ways. > | --- http://www.nongnu.org/nmh/ > | > |Am I overlooking something? Or is it possible to write commandline > |wrappers around s-nail that would provide this mh-like experience? > > Short answer: no. > > In the far future (starting with S-nail v15.0, not before (year) > 2015) you will at least be able to address MIME parts > individually. > > It would be nice to end up being able to extract a single > attachment / whatever part from a specific message inside > a folder, but i'm not sure and it is anyway a pie in the sky. > > Until then your only option is to define mimetype handlers for > viewing and whatever else you can do with sending ('set > pipe-content/subcontent=action', e.g., 'set > pipe-application/pgp-signature=@' for treating signatures as plain > text), but one should be careful to do so at the moment, because > all such handlers execute once the message is viewed... > > And personally i don't really like the concept of nmh(1) in > a normal UNIX environment. Things are different on Plan9 (9front, > 9atom) with its mail filesystem, which lets you address the > individual parts of a message as normal files. That is, i never > have used nmh, but i don't think there is an active (per-user) > server which acts as a caching instance or something? So i would > go grazy thinking about the work that happens in the background.. > > P.S.: note that "offline IMAP" may even change in the future and > may end up as a special mode of database operation. Today sqlite > is everywhere, and it wouldn't it be nice to organize messages in > a nicely layed out database, automatically, splitted into headers > and (compressed?) message (blobs)? Like that sqlite command line > tools can be used to act on the database, and then we could offer > an interaction with a specific unique DB message-ID. But this is > even more hypothetic. (Yet i like the idea.) > > --steffen > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Johan Commelin <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Cc: > Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2013 13:35:27 +0200 > Subject: [S-nail] Are s-nail and mh related? > Dear s-nail-users, > > I am a bit confused, hopefully you can help me out. I would be very > glad to use mh-like commands (mhshow, next, prev, ...) with an IMAP > mailbox (possibly synced with offlineIMAP). It seems that s-nail is > the way forward for those of us that want a CLI mail client with tight > shell integration. > > But when I start s-nail, I am dropped into a monolith program. That > is, I can not: >> freely intersperse nmh commands with other commands >> at your shell prompt, or write custom scripts which use >> these commands in flexible ways. > --- http://www.nongnu.org/nmh/ > > Am I overlooking something? Or is it possible to write commandline > wrappers around s-nail that would provide this mh-like experience? > > Best regards, > Johan Commelin > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > October Webinars: Code for Performance > Free Intel webinars can help you accelerate application performance. > Explore tips for MPI, OpenMP, advanced profiling, and more. Get the most from > the latest Intel processors and coprocessors. See abstracts and register > > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=60135031&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk > _______________________________________________ > S-nail-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/s-nail-users > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ October Webinars: Code for Performance Free Intel webinars can help you accelerate application performance. Explore tips for MPI, OpenMP, advanced profiling, and more. 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