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- > I keep wanting a standardized way for my UA to browse mailing list
- > archives
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- We use IMAP to do this here for several dozen mailing lists. It's the only way
- my inbox has been able to remain vaguely under control. It allows our whole
- group to easily browse list archives on a whole range of topics. The things I'd
- like to work better are:
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- 1. These mailboxes are read-only to everyone, so I can't keep any of my state
- info about them (eg messages read). (Thinking about shared mailboxes, it seems
- like both shared-state and state-per-reader are useful.)
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- 2. My IMAP client of choice (Mailstrom) tends to have problems when mailboxes
- are large ( > 2000 messages, say). This isn't a protocol problem, of course.
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- 3. Things being what they are, it's hard to get around to looking at these
- mailboxes as often as I should. I have thought about something simple that
- would each day go through a selected set of mailboxes, extract headers of new
- messages, and mail them to my regular inbox to better alert me to new messages
- of interest. As an occasional Perl hacker, this led me to try to work on the
- "mcheck" example that comes with c-client to produce a flexible command-line
- IMAP client that could be integrated into scripts (unfortunately this is far
- from done). I'd be interested if anyone else has done anything like this.
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- It may be that taking advantage of News/NNTP would solve some of these problems
- today, but I'm not a News hacker. I'm inclined to believe, as Mark implies,
- that IMAP could support this without any protocol changes.
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- - RL "Bob" Morgan
- Networking Systems
- Stanford
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