From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: RMAIL, MIME-related bug Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 13:57:17 -0600 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <3F98329D.9070603@yahoo.com> References: <200310121947.h9CJlhKH006102@oak.pohoyda.family> <874qy4vbg7.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <3F9471FB.4000609@yahoo.com> <87u163up4n.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <3F981CEC.607@yahoo.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1066939530 20098 80.91.224.253 (23 Oct 2003 20:05:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 20:05:30 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 23 22:05:28 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1ACli4-0006iH-00 for ; Thu, 23 Oct 2003 22:05:28 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1ACli3-0001a6-00 for ; Thu, 23 Oct 2003 22:05:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AClar-0000sa-QE for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Thu, 23 Oct 2003 15:58:01 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AClaY-0000sU-Vb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Oct 2003 15:57:42 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1ACla2-0000nW-9I for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Oct 2003 15:57:42 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.224.249] (helo=main.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1ACla1-0000nS-TO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Oct 2003 15:57:10 -0400 Original-Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1ACla1-0007Cl-00 for ; Thu, 23 Oct 2003 21:57:09 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Received: from sea.gmane.org ([80.91.224.252]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1ACla0-0007Cd-00 for ; Thu, 23 Oct 2003 21:57:08 +0200 Original-Received: from news by sea.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AClZz-0004uy-00 for ; Thu, 23 Oct 2003 21:57:07 +0200 Original-Lines: 31 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020406 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:17385 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:17385 Kevin Rodgers wrote: > Juri Linkov wrote: >> Using URL for references to messages is a good solution, but instead >> of inventing ad hoc protocol name, it's better to use standard name >> "mid" defined by http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2392.txt. > > Thanks for the pointer, but I find that document somewhat disappointing. ... > But more importantly, the mid and cid URLs do not actually specify a > LOCATION: that makes them more like a URN than a URL. And it makes them similar to the news: URL scheme. But there is also a nntp://://
URL scheme, which I think is closer to what we need. > Shouldn't the cid and mid schemes specify a location via the Common > Internet Scheme Syntax defined in RFC 1738? That way, you could specify > a folder file, or a POP or IMAP server (and user and password). We could define separate URL schemes for mbox, POP, and IMAP access, but I think for now I'm going to pursue my origial idea, but rename it to conform to the standard for experimental schemes: x-mid:[//[user@]host]/path/to/folder#message-id -- Kevin Rodgers