Re: [Nmh-workers] mime-aware filtering?

[Christian Neukirchen]

Paul Vixie <address@hidden> writes:

> i consider MH's basic mailbox format to be flawed in a MIME world for
> which MH was never designed or redesigned. every attachment should be in
> its own file, even if that meant that messages were directories no
> longer files themselves.
>
> note, i know we can't do that and i know why. i am not proposing it.

Some Plan 9 guys have explored this aproach:
http://plan9.lsub.org/magic/man2html/1/mails

It should not pose a problem to modern filesystems to have that many
directories.

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Christian Neukirchen  <address@hidden>  http://chneukirchen.org